“Bernie, I never told you how much I need you”
“No, no. I love you, man. Always have, always will”
Rocketman (2019), dir. Dexter Fletcher
One last question: Were there any costumes that made him cringe and think, “Oh, my God — I’ve got to wear that?”
“No,” Egerton said with a grin. “I’d love to say yes, but no. I think if you are gonna play Elton John, you know that you’re gonna be wearing something pretty outlandish. And if you’re not excited by that, you probably shouldn’t be playing Elton John. You have to relish that and be excited by it, and I was.”
He paused, and laughed softly. “Even the hot pants.”
You gotta kill the person you were born to be in order to become the person you wanna be.
ROCKETMAN (2019) dir. Dexter Fletcher
ROCKETMAN (2019) dir. Dexter Fletcher
“You are a shit-hot piano player, you have an amazing voice, and I’m telling you—there is something special that happens when you sing our songs.”
“The thing that came up was the idea that it was a fantasy musical, and not a straight-up biopic. We were looking at photographers such as David LaChapelle and Tim Walker, and then I read the script and worked out what was needed in the script. Afterwards, I went to see Sir Elton John’s archive for clothes in London, which had his stage clothes as well as his regular clothes, so this was really interesting. The only thing that we particularly paid homage to was the Dodgers costume. But even then we changed it up slightly by using Swarovski crystals instead of sequins… It was incredible. I mean, he’s a legend.”
- Julian Day (costume designer)
