“One of costume designer Julian Day’s favorite looks in “Rocketman” arrives at a moment of carefully choreographed disorder: a suicide attempt by the biopic’s subject, Elton John.
“John, played by British actor Taron Egerton, has plunged into a swimming pool mid-party, his gut full of pills and booze, only to be pulled from the water, resurrected on a hospital gurney and pushed out in front of a stadium of hysterical fans. With a shimmy and a shake, the singer is ready to go once more.
“In the dream-like sequence, Egerton is changed out of a pink leopard print robe and into the LA Dodgers jumpsuit that John famously wore at his Dodger Stadium gigs in October 1975. Except the outfit in the film isn’t quite as history remembers it.”
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