Elton John reveals his favourite clips in new documentary charting career

Directed by RJ Cutler and Sir Elton’s husband, David Furnish, the documentary – titled Elton John: Never Too Late – looks backmost implicit the musician’s decades-long vocation and captures him preparing for his last performance successful North America – astatine Dodger Stadium successful Los Angeles.

Sir Elton spoke of his favourite moments from the documentary during London Film Festival’s gala screening connected Thursday.

He said: “My favourite portion of footage successful the film, for immoderate reason, is erstwhile the boys FaceTime me, and I’m successful the workplace doing Hold Me Closer with Britney Spears.”

Sir Elton added: “I’ve seen it 3 times now, and I prime up small things, but the things that marque maine happiest are the ones with my household successful it, to beryllium honorable with you.”

Furnish said helium had directed a documentary astir Sir Elton successful 1995 called Tantrums and Tiaras, and helium “vowed helium would ne'er prime up a camera and movie him again” – but they felt “the value of the information helium was going connected his past tour”.

He said: “It was important astatine that infinitesimal successful clip to, you know, marque a connection and seizure that humanities moment, but we besides felt that we wanted to enactment with the best, we wanted to collaborate with idiosyncratic who could truly assistance america get the movie that we wanted.”

Sir Elton added “absolutely, and that’s wherefore we called RJ”.

Sir Elton said helium wanted the documentary to amusement the “difference betwixt being palmy erstwhile you person nary instauration and you’ve conscionable hurtled for 5 years of conscionable non-stop enactment and occurrence and uncovering retired that you’re precise bare inside”, and past however his beingness was 47 years later.

He added: “I travel disconnected signifier for the past clip successful America, and Dodger Stadium again, wherever I person the astir fantastic life. No sadness, conscionable happiness, family, children, husband, friends, sobriety. It was a hellhole of a difference.

“And it’s shown successful 2 pieces – what tin hap to radical who aren’t really, I wasn’t prepared for the occurrence I had, I loved it, but the backmost extremity of it, oregon the atrocious broadside of it, was that each I had was music, and determination was thing other and nary instauration whatsoever.

“So they captured it brilliantly, and I truly didn’t person overmuch to bash with it. I fto them get connected with it.”

Elton John: Never Too Late premieres connected Disney+ connected December 13.