His team is a powerful one, including Elsa Peretti (Rebecca Dayan) and Joe Eula (David Pittu). Ambitious, determined, and stopping at nothing, Halston builds an empire. He finds one in Liza Minnelli (Krysta Rodriguez), who becomes a treasured friend. To get his name out there, he needs a big-name client. Women eventually stopped wearing hats, and Halston realized he had to start designing clothing. When he designed Jackie Kennedy's pillbox hat, the world became his oyster. Halston started his design career designing hats - in fact, when he met Greta Garbo, he told her he had made hats for her at Hattie Carnegie. Ewan McGregor is Halston, a great designer, a sophisticated man, handsome, a drug addict, and a man who ultimately destroyed himself and his name.
The cigarette smoking was endless, and almost every scene opened with him lighting up.Īnd what a sad story it is. I would have scored this film a little bit higher if the script had been tighter and there had been less play on Halston's mannerisms. His downfall was clearly mapped out, but despite all this, he was a man who made the most of his life, however he chose to live it, and I think here Murphy has created a legend for the future. Perhaps he was a man who inspired insecurities in others he also seemed insecure himself. I loved the fashions and the beautiful settings I especially enjoyed the scenes he shared with Krysta Rodriguez as Liza Minnelli, otherwise most of his boyfriends I found insecure and annoying. I hadn't really thought of him as an exceptional actor before, now I can see that he is.
I loved the way he devoted so much attention to each of his creations, McGregor really captured this side of his character extremely well. One wonders how much of his success came from drug taking, and also contributed to his downfall. I must say McGregor didn't portray him as a particularly sympathetic character, with his perfectionism offset by his sleazy private life and drug taking. Ryan Murphy is usually associated with campy characters, in the case of Halston it was a man who achieved phenomenal success in an already crowded field. Well done Netflix.Įwan McGregor has been playing much edgier characters since he moved to America, and Halston is probably his riskiest role to date. It's rare to want to watch a biopic again, but this one I'd happily watch over and over just to enjoy McGregor's acting masterclass. He totally dominates in the best possible way.
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But McGregor is just so brilliant and sustains the characterisation so powerfully throughout the entire series that in the end it doesn't matter that we're watching a biopic, the character acquires a life of his own on the screen. Some of the secondary characters lack screen presence (Hugo, Elsa) but it probably doesn't matter so much because McGregor is just so nuanced and natural and layered and conflicted and convincing that watching him makes everyone else pale in comparison. The sex and drug stuff is given a tad too much screen time perhaps, after a couple of scenes we get it, we get it. A few flaws here don't diminish the overall viewing satisfaction. Everyone involved, from scripting to directing is pulled in all sorts of directions between trying to be authentic to the life of the individual concerned and achieving sufficient dramatic and narrative momentum. Nothing harder to pull off on the screen than a biopic. At least Halston didn't stretch his face all over the place. I can't wait to see one on Calvin Klein! An even bigger train wreck. Had Halston worked at his relationship with the decent Ed Austin and focused on his work he might have had a happier life. For those upset by the boofing, well Halston didn't look like he felt a thing so why should you? It really is a sad story of 1970s excess. I'm glad we live in more enlightened times and people realize not all guys act like Halston. They were put in for laughs not for titillation. I love the review from the guy scared off by the corn holing scenes. Halston was a strange mix of pretense and NASTAY. For once Ryan Murphy's sleaze comes in handy. There is no boring filler in this miniseries. It is all there, the talent, the drive, the arrogance, the insecurity, the glamour and the raunch.
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