CNN Official Interview: Joan Collins reflects on Liz Taylor

Joan Collins talks "Cleopatra" and Taylor's many husbands on "Piers Morgan Tonight."

[@mikesterSTLMO]

Joan ain't no slouch herself. She looks amazing.

[@emmamorgan9469]

OMG! Two icons. Two of the most glamorous women you will EVER see. They dont make em like that anymore.... love both these ladies.

[@harleyhartley3168]

Yep, and Elizabeth’s not bad either! ;)

[@Judy-um6yn]

I love Joan Collins but Elizabeth Taylor was the embodiment of Cleopatra!!!

[@poussinhamzah4013]

Hard to believe Joan was nearly 78 here....she looked fabulous ( and still does ). She is a great actress but I don't think she could have played the role of Cleopatra as well as Elizabeth Taylor.

[@jacktran7024]

@1:49...that 'richard burton' line is classic and witty

[@mogznwaz]

Joan was also a real beauty and still looks great. What a gal!

[@moshebec1]

I will never ever forget you as Alexis. That was a revolutionary role. You actaully brought Hollywood into television

[@artfuldodger9312]

Joan Collins, what a lovely lady.

[@GM-bx6wo]

One was an icon another one is a star.

[@bluedasher74]

And Elizabeth had actually been considered for the role of Alexis on Dynasty.

[@mogznwaz]

Liz had the character but by then she didn't have the looks. All that hard living took its toll in her later life. But I always loved her

[@vapalaca]

Joan would have been amazing as Cleopatra as well.

[@carmenwilley8858]

Like her and liked Liz Taylor and glad Liz did the role. Liz had a great sense of humor and gave a lot to the aids cause before it was popular. Heard she was a great mother. Elizabeth Taylor was so beautiful. Even when she was 12 playing National Velvet.

[@nathaliedufour3891]

Can't remember a single movie Joan Collins was in, except for her unforgettable part in Dynasty

[@wilburbonzo]

liz taylor was not the first to make that kind of a salary, in the silent days mary pickford and gloria swanson were making millions, and charlie chaplin signed a contract for $600,000 in 1916!

[@ohwell94]

back then it was all tax free too

[@JloveLamar]

@Dusk Hollow Exactly! At that time NOBODY made that for one single film. Elizabeth Taylor was the very first.

[@ahyan6681]

Those were for contracts that covered multiple roles, this one was for a single role

[@TheIkaraCult]

Joan is the coolest person on the face of the earth

[@ninfacoscolluela7329]

joal looks exactly liz taylor

[@user-ig5sc5mv1r]

Joan collins looks like Elizabeth Taylor Like carol channing looks like Marilyn Monroe . Joan looks good but NOBODY looked like Elizabeth Taylor. She was undoubtedly the most beautiful woman in the world. I don’t know who you are. But I would go get glasses immediately

[@kimberlywhitehead22]

Liz did it for 1 million dollars and 20% of the gross

[@GlanceofGlory]

@astraiiia It wouldn't even have mattered if you could prove a thing so subjective. Elizabeth was a force of nature, she was a renowned personality no matter what she did or what she looked like on her worst day she was still more famous and compelling in the worst periods of her career than Joan Collins ever was. People think it's about beauty, including Collins who took it on herself to criticize the looks of modern day starlets but it's presence that contributes to beauty most significantly.

[@rick0e295]

What a 💎 gem! Joan and Elizabeth! Queens of beauty, elegance, and OTT glamor! 🏰 💋 🚘 👑 Those were the Dames! 🏆 😎 ⛱

[@colemarker8101]

Joan is so gorgeous !

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

Let's face it Joan would had made w great cleopatra

[@polyprinz]

I can't picture Joan as Cleopatra. Elizabeth was the most beautiful actress in Hollywood, with better acting chops than Collins. That was a fact!

[@ludastout2852]

They almost look alike. Also Joan is taller than ET and that time was much skinnier.

[@7777lizabeth]

I have seen it said Ava Gardener was the most beautiful actress in Hollywood!

[@lancerave]

Watch Joan’s screen test for Cleopatra, actually pretty good

[@thehair1474]

It was said back in the 1950s that Joan Collins was the poor man's Elizabeth Taylor. By the 1980s Elizabeth Taylor was the poor man's Joan Collins. Things do change. Joan is still here and has had a 70 year career and is still going strong. Elizabeth is gone.

[@rizwanrhodes9927]

You made that sound quite harsh. Liz remained a very well known icon for her whole life, she’s still highly regarded in hollywood till this day. Nobody has or will forget Elizabeth Taylor.

[@thehair1474]

@@rizwanrhodes9927 of couse no one will forget Elizabeth. I was just pointing out that the reality switched for both of them from the '50s to the 80s, and that Joan is still here going strong, Elizabeth is not.

[@sanita7475]

Joan would look more like a Cleopatra than Liz she is more exotic.

[@paulburrows5022]

totally agree.

[@asanta2023]

Agree👍🏽

[@josejardim6989]

Yes she's just got that elegant touch

[@kelletman]

Lol, spoken like true fan, but makes makes no sense, Joan Collins was a bit part actress compared to Elizabeth Taylor.both in looks and acting ability, not saying Joan Collins is a bad actress, love them both, but it's a ridicules comparison.

[@annkow9154]

Yeah Agree Elizabeth was more convencionally gorgerous woman but Joan more exotic beauty

[@osvaldopaulo3369]

Beautiful. Joan Collins

[@ohwhatworld5851]

What does 'Boardy' and a 'salty turn of phrase' mean?

[@perpieta]

"Bawdy"= prone to talking about, making jokes, etc., about sex and having a good time ;) "Salty turn of phrase" = using strong language--in other words: curse words

[@ohwhatworld5851]

@@perpieta Thanks

[@geoffreyprince]

Joan Collins has this amazing ability to (try to) rewrite history. Especially as there is no one left alive to disprove it. (except me!) Joan Collins was NEVER going to play Cleopatra. The (real) story is as follows: In the late 50s, 20th Century Fox needed some quick, money making films. They decided on "Cleopatra" (Fox had produced the Theda Bara silent film of the same name decades earlier) but they could not find anyone to produce it. in 1959 - producer Walter Wanger came to Fox saying he wanted to make "Cleopatra" - Fox jumped on him. BUT, he had one actress and only one actress in mind for the lead role: Elizabeth Taylor. Fox tried to dissuade Wanger from the expensive Taylor by doing screen tests using Fox contracted actresses, including Joan Collins. Her screen test is horrifying. (you can watch Collins chew her way through the screen test for Cleopatra on KZbin). 20th Century Fox offered Taylor the then unheard of sum of $1M for the role - and the rest, as they say, is history. Joan had better stick to celebrating her role as Alexis in "Dynasty" - although it is amusing to consider that Aaron Spelling first wanted Elizabeth Taylor as Alexis.

[@sassyd8738]

Um her screen test was no chewy u funny she did good but the woman who got the part dd good as well

[@nodentureadventure2]

you're incorrect.

[@musculusgarbos]

Elizabeth Taylor signed the contract publicly in 1959, but she still owed MGM one more film that needed to be finished before she could do Cleopatra and that film was BUtterfield 8, for which she got her first Oscar.

[@L-O-L-za]

How does she manage to make EVERYTHING about herself?? She hardly paid tribute!!

[@ssam1820]

Does anyone know what the heck boody means, she said elziabeth was very "BOODY" "and liked a salty turn of phrase." Whay do those two statements even mean?

[@sammolloy3919]

It means they smoke, drank and swore !

[@perpieta]

"Bawdy"= prone to talking about/making jokes about sex and having a good time ;) "Salty turn of phrase" = using strong language--in other words, curse words

[@maryexstroughtonaire4244]

Joan was a hot villianess in Land of the Pharoah.

[@michellecoscolluela8418]

Joan collins looks liz taylor also

[@georgestricker3928]

only Elizabeth has a unique violet eye and natural double set of thick eyelash, her beauty in the 50's n 60's generation is unmatched to all the eyes of the actresses (Blue, green, brown are common eyes of Americans ) that's why Elizabeth was very popular as the most beautiful woman in the world in the 50's n 60's generation. But her beauty faded when set gets fat even she fluctuate her weight she's not striking beautiful anymore because she's getting old, died old and ugly. her non rival in 50's, 60's became her rival now....

[@johnnaylor823]

As if she looks like Elizabeth Taylor! She wishes.

[@Melinda8162]

​​@@johnnaylor823no they didn't look alike. Joan very pretty in her own right. But Elizabeth IS phenomenal!! No match!

[@permijitdunkley5149]

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[@johnnaylor823]

Hoping shed get better BS!!!!!!! IF liz taylor had passed away she would have snatched that part. Shed often slate Liz Taylor. Joan was a poor imitation of her