And someone guided me into saying that I need help.Īnd I went into rehab and I, you know, I've been-this year, hopefully, in July, I'll be 18 years sober and clean. And that helped me a lot to see how out of whack my life was, you know, how impossible my life had become, how self- obsessed I had become.Īnd shortly after Ryan died, which I was at the funeral for in Indianapolis-and I played at the funeral-I decided six months later, that my life was, you know, pretty horrible. I became very friendly with the Ryan White family, with Ryan and his mother Jeanie. I never felt really that, during that time, I did enough for AIDS, people with AIDS, being a gay man. And during that time, the AIDS epidemic started, in the early '80s. As John told Larry King in 2008 about his decision to go to rehab: I was an alcoholic and a drug addict for 16 years. In reality, though, John didn't go to rehab until 1990 after his Sleeping With the Past tour. The framing of Rocketman shows John storming out of his Madison Square Garden gig and going directly to rehab, where he tells his story.
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And, for the most part, the movie fairly accurately recreates John's life as a young boy through the '70s. The script was developed by Lee Hall, who spent many hours with John, hearing stories and anecdotes, according to Fletcher. "We know he was at the Troubadour, but it's really trying to communicate what that felt like, not just the fact that he was there." "There could be a factual, chronological documentary that would tell you absolutely everything about what Elton did, where he was, and when he did it, but the film just absolutely explores his inner, emotional life," Fletcher says. But that's how events are depicted in Rocketman, the film about Elton John, because this is not a biography-it's a musical intended to capture the emotion of John's life, as the movie's director, Dexter Fletcher, tells me. Neither did he turn into an actual "rocket man" during his Dodgers Stadium shows in October 1975. He gracefully accepted and spent his time on set being a perfectly polite professional.As you've probably gathered, Elton John did not literally levitate along with the audience during his Augshow at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. When Vaughn repeated his offer for the sequel, John did not repeat his mistake. (According to ScreenRant, the blow of his refusal was so severe that star Colin Firth actually wrote to John and begged the singer to reconsider.) After the movie came out, John loved Kingsman: The Secret Service so much that he regretted his decision. Cinema Blend tells us Vaughn wanted John to make an appearance in the first Kingsman, but the musician turned him down. Apparently, this wasn't meant to be a stealth nod to Egerton's future role as the Rocket Man, but a completely coincidental thing that was championed by director Matthew Vaughn. After all, they knew Egerton had already collaborated with Sir Elton John, who had a sizable cameo role as himself in 2017's Kingsman: The Golden Circle. When Taron Egerton was announced as the lead in Rocketman, fans of the Kingsman movie franchise might have lifted a knowing eyebrow. As Ultimate Classic Rock reports, Timberlake went on to revisit the role in 2013, when he opened his Saturday Night Live hosting gig with a sketch where John is playing at the funeral of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
In 2001, Timberlake starred in a music video for John's song "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore," playing a '70s version of Elton John, and apparently Elton really liked the job he did. The NSYNC heartthrob turned solo superstar and actor may seem like a choice out of left field, but the inspiration didn't come entirely out of the blue. At that point, the film didn't have a director or a solid lead attached, but John already had an eye on the man he felt would be best equipped to play him: Justin Timberlake. According to Rolling Stone, Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall was already writing the script and Sir Elton John himself was confident on the tone and timbre the eventual movie would take. In 2012, Rocketman was little more than a glimmer in the eye of everyone involved, but the backstage was already plenty busy.
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