Kim Kardashian shares 'surreal' experience with Elizabeth Taylor weeks before her death

Kim Kardashian is an enforcement shaper connected a caller BBC docuseries astir the precocious Dame Elizabeth Taylor and has recalled speaking to her soon earlier her decease successful 2011

Reality TV prima Kim Kardashian has said it "felt surreal" to talk to Hollywood histrion Dame Elizabeth Taylor for what is thought to beryllium her last-ever interview.

The US media personality, who recovered fame connected world amusement Keeping Up With Kardashians alongside her household members, is an enforcement producer connected BBC Arts' caller three-part bid astir the actress. The 43-year-old spoke to Dame Elizabeth for a Harper's Bazaar illustration the period earlier her decease successful 2011 wherever the brace shared stories astir their emotion for jewellery.

Speaking astir the interview, Kim said: "I was doing a sprout for Harper's Bazaar and they said they'd emotion it to person a Cleopatra-themed cover, and that I could interrogation Elizabeth for the screen story." Dame Elizabeth famously played the Egyptian queen successful 1963 romance movie Cleopatra.

"Everyone knew however overmuch I loved her and I was truthful excited," Kim said. "Interviewing her felt surreal, I was truthful nervous. Just to cognize we had a bully clip doing it. Elizabeth would laughter and say, 'I can't judge you cognize truthful much. I can't judge you cognize much astir my jewellery than I adjacent remember.'"

Kim besides said that Dame Elizabeth helped successful "paving the way" for women similar her. "I've ever looked to her to motivate me," she said. "It doesn't substance what's acceptable to different radical if you judge successful it and that's what you privation to combat for."

She said: "You combat for those radical who don't person voices, to beryllium their voice. I deliberation if you person a level that you tin usage to speech astir the issues that are truly incorrect with this world, past you're shedding a airy for truthful galore radical that different they mightiness not adjacent cognize about."

"Elizabeth has been specified an inspiration to me. She was a immense driving unit successful paving the mode for anyone successful my presumption today. It's not casual to beryllium first, you know? And I emotion that there's idiosyncratic similar her to look up to".

As good arsenic being 1 of the astir recognisable faces successful 20th period cinema, Dame Elizabeth was besides 1 of the archetypal celebrities to telephone for greater consciousness of HIV/Aids. Among her best-known films are National Velvet, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Butterfield 8.

The BBC Arts bid includes first-hand grounds from those closest to Taylor, from household members to her friends and celebrated faces including Kim, Michael Jackson's girl Paris Jackson, histrion Sharon Stone and histrion Dame Joan Collins, who competed with her for the relation of Cleopatra. Leading idiosyncratic Dr Anthony Fauci, erstwhile main aesculapian advisor to the US president, volition besides diagnostic to sermon his enactment alongside Dame Elizabeth successful the combat against Aids.

Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar is coming to BBC Two and BBC iPlayer connected Friday September 27.

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