PopUps: Judy Garland's Daughter (Not Liza!) Says She Won't See 'Judy'
One of Judy Garland's daughters says she will not be seeing the new biopic about the late Hollywood icon starring Renee Zellweger, Yahoo reports.
Appearing on "Good Morning Britain," Lorna Luft told viewers and fans to watch her mother's films and listen to her music rather than seeing "Judy," which opens this weekend.
"You know, I'm really protective of my mom's legacy and my mother's legendary career," she said. "And I feel that if you really want to know about my mum, go see her movies and go listen to her recordings and go watch her television shows.
"By the time my mother was 37, she had made 39 movies, and she had done over 500 radio shows, 1257 concerts. So, it was an extraordinary career," Luft continued. "And I sit here and I think to myself that I'm the luckiest person in the world to have had her as my mum. She passed away early but what an incredible legacy that she left."
"Judy" chronicles the last year in Garland's life where she played a five-week residency in London in 1968. The film follows the star as she struggles with substance abuse, addiction, and depression.
Luft isn't the only daughter of Garland who is taking issue with "Judy." Last year when news about the film made headlines, Liza Minnelli took to her Facebook to denounce the film. More recently, "Judy" director Rupert Goold told "Entertainment Tonight" he understands where she's coming from.
"It's an invasion of privacy at some level, I suppose," he said. "And that's the complexity of being a child of a star, is it's somebody you want to own in an intimate personal way, yet is sort of in a gaudy way, like, public property."
Nevertheless, the filmmaker still hopes she sees "Judy."
"I've got a friend, he's a dancer and backup singer who had worked with Liza, and he said, 'The thing about Liza is she's incredibly passionate and emotional but also will really change her view,'" he said. "Not that Liza has been hostile to the movie, particularly, but I have every faith that she'll see it and find it celebratory."