Kyle MacLachlan, Elizabeth Taylor Sam Levi;SGranitz/WireImage(2)/Getty Photos(2)
The 1994 live-action film The Flintstones introduced an A-list solid to the city of Bedrock, from leads John Goodman and Rick Moranis to celebs with supporting roles, like Halle Berry, Jay Leno and even Elizabeth Taylor.
Taylor, nonetheless, had some strict calls for as a way to seem within the movie.
Kyle MacLachlan, who performed Cliff Vandercave, recalled capturing the film on an episode of the “Dinner’s on Me With Jesse Tyler Ferguson” podcast. MacLachlan, 65, stated the late actress demanded a present every single day she was on set.
“The solid was loopy. [Producer Bruce Cohen] received Elizabeth Taylor to do this film. It was superb,” he stated. “She needed to have a present every single day.”
Although MacLachlan tried to proceed talking, Ferguson interrupted him, seemingly astonished by the revelation.

John Goodman crosses his arms as Elizabeth Perkins frowns at Elizabeth Taylor in a scene from the movie ‘The Flintstones’, 1994. Common/Getty Photos
“Wait, wait, wait, cease,” he stated. “She needed to have a present?”
“And she or he needed to have, within the dressing room trailers, the whole lot was inexperienced, she needed to have greenery round her,” MacLachlan continued.
MacLachlan stated that he acquired this info secondhand, however earlier interviews with Cohen appear to substantiate it.
“[Cohen] in all probability instructed me and stated, ‘Don’t ever inform anyone that.’ Too late. It’s too late,” he joked.
Cohen recalled shortly after Taylor’s dying in 2011 how he wished to make the expertise “particular” for her.
“I’d really been to her home for a wardrobe becoming two weeks earlier than,” he recalled. “She pulled me in very shut and whispered into my ear, ‘Darling, you recognize that I like items on the primary day of images.’ I stated, ‘Sure, I’ve heard of this custom.’ After which she whispered, ‘I like Cartier, darling.’”
Fortunately, Cohen had the buy-in from Steven Spielberg to make it occur.
“We didn’t have an Elizabeth Taylor reward allotment within the funds, so I went to Mr. Spielberg, who was the manager producer, and I stated, ‘Steven, I would like you to write down me a private test so I can go looking for Elizabeth Taylor,’” he added. “He liked that concept and understood why we couldn’t put it within the funds.”
The Flintstones was the ultimate film that Taylor made earlier than she died, although she took a number of TV roles within the late ’90s and early 2000s. She used her function within the movie as Pearl Slaghoople to boost $330,000 for the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Basis. Taylor was a number one champion for HIV/AIDS analysis, utilizing her platform to unfold consciousness through the Eighties and into the ’90s.
Taylor died on the age of 79 from congestive coronary heart failure.