Trailer for Burton and Taylor Starring Helena Bonham Carter and Dominic West

Posted on July 6, 2013

Now this is how you do a movie about Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. First we had the ridiculous Lindsay Lohan version on Lifetime. But now we have Helena Bonham Carter playing Elizabeth Taylor and Dominic West playing Richard Burton in a new film by the BBC.

The film focuses on the time in which the couple played a husband and wife in a play called Private Lives. Helena looks absolutely gorgeous with her violet contacts and she has Liz's voice and mannerisms down pat. There is lots of drama and booze, some of it hurled against the nearest wall in a display of fury. Yeah, this works. Take a look: