As the film is released on digital from next week, Universal Pictures has shared an exclusive clip with us for the upcoming documentary Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed.
The film is an intimate portrait of actor Rock Hudson, one of Hollywood’s most celebrated leading men of the 1950’s and ‘60’s and an icon of Hollywood’s Golden Age, whose diagnosis and eventual death from AIDS in 1985 shocked the world, subsequently shifting the way the public perceived the pandemic. The film examines not only Hudson’s cinematic and cultural legacy but takes a rare and sometimes heart-breaking look at his private life through interviews with close friends and former lovers.
Born Roy Fitzgerald and renamed “Rock Hudson” by his agent, with his 6’5” frame, strong physique and chiselled good looks, Hudson was the embodiment of romantic masculinity and heterosexuality. The film explores the story of a man living a double life, one whose public persona was carefully manufactured by his handlers and orchestrated by the studio system, while fearing a potentially career-ending discovery that he was privately living as a gay man.
Directed by celebrated documentary filmmaker Stephen Kijak (Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, Sid and Judy & Stones in Exile) the film features interviews with Doris Day, Linda Evans, Mark Griffin, Piper Laurie, Ross Hunter, Douglas Sirk, Illeana Douglas, Allison Anders, Armistead Maupin and many more.
Check out the clip below.
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed is available to download and rent on digital platforms from 23rd October.
