Exclusive: The director of Judy Garland's biopic hopes that Judy's eldest daughter, Liza Minnelli, will find the film 'celebratory.'
about how Hollywood would frame a biopic about her late mother to ET:"I just hope they don't do what they always do," she said.
"I mean, if somebody made a movie about my mum, I would go, 'That's not the story I'd tell!'" Goold laughs, then admits,"It's an invasion of privacy at some level, I suppose. And that's the complexity of being a child of a star, is it's somebody you want to own in an intimate, personal way, yet is sort of in a gaudy way, like, public property."
That Minnelli herself appears as a character opposite Zellweger's take on Garland is another wrinkle, to be sure. Still, Goold hopes that Garland's children -- Minnelli and her half-siblings, Lorna and Joe Luft -- will see"I've got a friend, he's a dancer and backing singer who had worked with Liza, and he said, 'The thing about Liza is she's incredibly passionate and emotional but also will really change her view,'" he says.
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