Worth the watch - Halston

I am halfway through it, and will binge the rest of it tonight - it is EXCELLENT. The costuming and set decoration are flawless! Here is a link to the trailer:

 

Ian told me that because Halston in real life was 6'3", but McGregor is 5"9", they were looking for smaller sizes to fit the smaller actors they had hired to make Halston look as tall as possible.

 

It's wonderful! And that Krysta Rodriguez! She just embodies Liza Minnelli. Her gestures, dance style, singing, nuanced expressions, a perfect re-creation. The whole show is a tantalizing mix of fashion, music, dance and stellar performances telling this compelling story. I don't want to blaze through it too quickly as I want it to last!

 

I can't wait to see it!!

 

I agree she is amazing and she doesn't cross the line of parody, like an SNL sketch. Ewan too is impressive at Halston - he doesn't look much like him, but his voice is bang on, and after a while you forget what Halston looked like!

 

Apparently it was supposed to be an 8 part series, but they were in the midst of filming it when COVID hit. Starting back up kept getting delayed and by last fall actors and others contracted to the production needed to be released to go to other projects, so it was recut and rewritten to cram the story into 5 parts and film only what was necessary to make it flow.

 

I really enjoyed it!

 

I watched it from beginning to end last night - it was absolutely wonderful.

 

Article about Halston:

https://theconversation.com/halston...rise and spectacular fall of a fashion icon

 

I listened last night - it was interesting to hear that she had basically 2 months to pull everything together, and only half that time was actually constructing the costumes.