taron egerton, who did all his own singing, found it a bit daunting to be belting out eltonjohn hits. i prepared by being with him, largely. and having that wonderful privilege of being able to know everything, because you really can ask him anything. he's so much fun. he'll tell you everything. and in a promotional studio—sanctioned interview for the film, elton john described how impressed he was by ta ron egerton‘s performance. not only did he have to perform my life, he had to sing my life. and that's a double whammy. and when i look at him, singing, and when i look at him acting, i am not looking at taron egerton, i'm looking at me. director dexter fletcher maintains that eltonjohn and his husband, david furnish, who were producers of the film, gave cast and crew free rein in their portrayal. but rocketman remains nonetheless an authorised version of eltonjohn‘s life. director ken loach is a hardy british perennial at cannes, over the years, the social realist film—maker who has chronicled the challenges of the working class has had 1a films in competition, and he's won t

taron egerton did hold his own singing and found it daunting to be out elton john hits. i prepared by being with him, largely. and having that wonderful privilege of being able to know everything, because you really can ask him anything. he is so much fun. he will tell you everything. and in a promotional studio sanctioned interview for the film eltonjohn described how impressed he was by taron egerton‘s performance. not only did he have to perform my life, he had to sing my life. and that's a double whammy. and when i look at him, singing, and when i look at him acting, i am not looking at taron egerton, i'm looking at me. director dexter fletcher maintains that eltonjohn and his husband, who were producers of the film, gave cast and crew free rein in their portrayal. rocketman is an authorised version of eltonjohn‘s life. director ken loach is a british perennial at cannes. over the years the social realist film—maker has chronicled the challenges of the working class and had 11! films in competition. he's won the top prize twice. now at the age of 82, he has dir

taron egerton did hold his own singing and find it daunting to be out elton john hits. i prepared by being with him, largely. and having that wonderful privilege of being able to know everything, because you really can ask him anything. he is so much fun. he will tell you everything. and ina he will tell you everything. and in a promotional studio sanctioned interview for the film eltonjohn sanctioned interview for the film elton john described sanctioned interview for the film eltonjohn described how impressed he was by taron egerton‘s performance. not only did he have to perform my life, he had to sing my life. and that's a double whammy. and when i look at him, singing, and when i look at him, singing, and when i look at him acting, i am not looking at taron egerton, i'm looking at me. director dexter fletcher maintains that eltonjohn director dexter fletcher maintains that elton john and director dexter fletcher maintains that eltonjohn and his husband who we re that eltonjohn and his husband who were producers of the film gave cast and crew free rein in their bet

taron egerton did all his own singing and find it daunting to be out elton john hits. i prepared by being with him, largely. and having that wonderful privilege of being able to know everything, because you really can ask him anything. he is so much fun. he will tell you everything. and in a promotional studio sanctioned interview for the film, eltonjohn described how impressed he was by taron egerton‘s performance. not only did he have to perform my life, he had to sing my life. and that's a double whammy. and when i look at him, singing, and when i look at him acting, i am not looking at taron egerton, i'm looking at me. director dexter fletcher maintains that eltonjohn and his husband, who were producers of the film, gave cast and crew free rein in their portrayal. rocketman is nonetheless an authorised version of eltonjohn‘s life. director ken loach is a british perennial at cannes, over the years the social realist film—maker has chronicled the challenges of the working class has had 1a films in competition, and he's won the top prize twice. now at the age o

taron egerton. he plays elton john. and from the state of minnesota, one of the many people running for president, senator amy klobuchar. there are a lot of democrats in the race right now. and we'll hear more about them over the coming year, so we've come up with a song to help you remember their names. can you give me some music please? ♪ booker sanders warren delaney or klobuchar biden ♪ [cheers and applause] now that you know the words, sing along with me. here we go ♪ booker sanders warren harris nas am bennett ensly. hickenlooper gabbard castro gillibrand de blasio swalwell moulton gravel ♪ [cheers and applause] probably should have rehearsed that, but you know. this is the kind of fighter the democrats could really use in this race. it's a feisty meteorologist who works at our local abc affiliate in dayton, ohio. last night there was a very serious tornado warning in dayton, ohio. i think the tornado's like ten miles tall. naturally, they broke in live to warn their viewers. unfortunately, they broke in d

secondly, taron egerton is brilliant. he doesn't look like elton john but it is the physicality of the performance, the chest forward but looking like he is vulnerable behind the glasses. the film is about a little kid who wants a hug. a central relationship between him and bernie taupin, which has the tenderness such as in captain fantastic. it almost looks like it's been directed by ken russell. i'm a big fan of him, dexter fletcher has worked with him. there are scenes that i think ken russell would have loved. tributes to mgm musicals, fantasias. the whole thing just swept me off my feet. authorised but not sanitised, right? absolutely, there was a thing with bohemian rhapsody being family friendly, but this, it's a story of sex and drugs. finally enough, it owes a structural debt to the ian durie biopic, sex & drugs & rock & roll, which was set up as a vaudevillian stage show with ian durie as the unreliable narrator. here you have elton writing his story from rehab. he walks into rehab dressed in a costume that make

taron egerton and in his platforms. bursting through every door in a big outfit playing eltonjohn. in a biopic that really isn't a biopic. it is sort of about eltonjohn and his friendship with bernie taupin. it is fabulous. it is a neorealist musical. it uses the songs we know so well. and they reappropriate those lyrics, breathing new life into songs you thought you knew so well. elton grows up with his mum and his dad. it also goes very dark and very deep into elton‘s past drug use and drug addiction and homosexuality. a very bold film in the way bohemian rhapsody wasn't bold, it was bright and good and fun, but this one is stronger and bolder. not a family, musical it is broken. eltonjohn said he didn't want a sanitized version of his life. i don't think he has lived a sanitized life. he is proud of the fact that he is still standing, as the song goes. i can't get it out of my head. he is still standing and he lives to tell the tale, a brilliant tale. if you remember the songs the first time around orjust heard them and wondered what they were about, this really adds another l

tonight -- taron egerton, senator amy klobuchar, and music from the specials. and now, suddenly, jimmy kimmel! ♪ >> jimmy: welcome, thank you. hi, i'm jimmy. i'm the most of the show. thank you for watching, thank you for coming. sit, please. i appreciate that. we are back to work after we had an extra day off of work for memorial day. this is a big travel weekend, and you can really see why when you travel. there's no better way to kick off summer than by listening to

. >>> >> taron egerton says he's fiercely proud of the film that's already getting oscar buzz. >> i cannot think about it, though. if i think about it -- i can't think about it. >> rami malek knows an atlile something about that. he hit up last night's after par ity to support taron. that's real friendship, especially since elton john insulted him for lip-synching. no awkward run in. he was perform inning italy. >> he was hands on, approving each costume. the cast has favorites. >> it would be elizabeth i. no questions! not only, hey, look at you, elizabeth i. not only am i elizabeth i, i'm elton john being elizabeth i. >> probably the hands >> i supp be quite fun to have that donald duck outfit, wouldn't it? you could make some sort of installation out of that. >>> there's another music inspired movie that people are really excited about pt it's the reason i'm here in the liverpool the home of the beatles. it's called "yesterday." t a singer song writer wakes up one day to find out only he knows the beatle never existed. >> what is this? rock and roll. we are in liverpool. lily james and

>>elton wanted someone who would lip-sync his songs and kingsmen taron egerton that the role. >>most of them will go to the new nixon and i some of these of saying i'm not that complicated and he really put every fiber of into that and to the scene level on the i think i mean he's what double >>and tear and even surprised can with a duet of the film's title track. had been a friend for as long as i can remember, but it's since we've become. >>friends and i have found out how full of love and concern his in love with him as a person and tonight he will be in london with elton and the cast for their world premiere, you don't want to miss it. >>i'm nancy o'dell back to you. and on this monday evening looking now over the the golden gate bridge, which you can see of a lot of clouds out there tonight your bottom line if you like rain the you're in luck. our chief meteorologist lawrence cardinals or at looks like we're just flat out skip in spring this year i mean we're going to go home for wintew to summer looks like. >>has there really isn't much and inside we've got a lot of clou

the film starring taron egerton charts john's rise to fame and chronicles his struggles with addiction. >> the reality is that's how i was, and i'm just relieved, god, i'm so glad i don't have to do that anymore. i'm so glad i can wake up in the morning, see my children, see david, and not have to deal with all that awful behavior and that awful addiction. >> john says that he is thrilled with the way the movie turned out. >>> and the eiffel tower is back open this morning after being evacuated when a man climbed nearly to the top. the unidentified man hung onto the iron lattice about 900 feet in the air for hours refusing to come down yesterday. eventually police and firefighters convinced him to surrender, and it's really not clear why he did it. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning" lori lightfoot's first sit-down interview after being sworn in as chicago's first female african-american mayor and first openly gay mayor. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." let's see, aleve is proven better on pain than tylenol extra strength. and last longer with fewer pills. so why a

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joining us live from cannes, elton john and taron egerton. thank you both for joining us this morning. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you, thank you. >> let me start out with congratulations. i had the chance to watch the movie last night. it is big. it is brash. it is surprising. it reveals, elton, a lot of your pain as well. i understand -- is this really true that i've seen it, but you haven't? >> i haven't yet. tonight is my -- i'm a virgin until night if you pardon the expression. i haven't -- i haven't seen it, george, no. so i'm a bit -- i've seen bits and pieces but haven't seen the whole thing strung together. so it's going to be quite a nerve-racking experience for me tonight. >> well, calm down. i can tell you it turned out pretty well. >> thank you. thank you. >> taron, you sing the songs in this and the more i learn about your history, i guess this was just meant to be. if you could share this with everybody, you actually sang elton's "your song" to try to get into drama school? >> i did. yeah. [ applause ] it feels a bit like

next week, we will be joined by a number of luminaries including zach galifianakis, taron egerton, speaker of the house nancy pelosi, senator amy klobuchar. we will have music from alessia cara and the specials. and we have two shows in prime-time next week along with games one and two of the nba finals with jennifer aniston, adam sandler, ll cool j and an all new nba edition of mean tweets. [cheers and applause] our first guest is an snl alumnus and star of feature films who plays an uber-driving high school principal in the exceptionally funny movie "booksmart." it opens in theaters tomorrow. please welcome jason sudeikis. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> jimmy: how are you? >> hello. oh! >> jimmy: by the way, i love bugs bunny, and people have forgotten about him. >> disney's just accumulating. you know, you work for the mouse. >> jimmy: it's every single, snoopy came back and everything, where is bugs? he's nowhere to be found? >> he took a wrong turn at albuquerque. >> jimmy: classic. >> set me up, baby, you're the best, jimmy. >> jimmy: you know what i love about bugs bunny? he's a compl

you're fantastic in it taron egerton is fantastic i also want to say, bryce dallas howard. >> yeah. >> jimmy: i loved her in it. i'm a big fan of elton john. did you know elton going in to this -- elton music? >> i knew his music. i think the first kind of song as a child, i had, like, the "circle of life," was the first one. and then as you kind of grow up, i kind of hear a lot more. >> jimmy: that was your first elton john >> i thinkt's gotta be >> jimmy: you're such a baby >> i was very young. >> jimmy: oh, my god >> i may look very old, but i'm actually much yo >> jimmy: no, i -- wow >> yeah. and then i was kind of immersed in all of his music, which i love >> jimmy: do you have a favorite do you leatowards a favorite one? >> "bennie and the jets" is up there as one of my top favorites. >> jimmy: it just gets -- ays it better and better as the years goes on. he just gets on the piano, he like - clunk! blink, bang bah bah blunk. >> yeah, no, it's good >> jimmy: did you get to meet him at all >> yeah, i'm lucky enough to call him a friend now, which is lovely >> jimmy: reallys >> ye

you're fantastic in it taron egerton is fantastic i also want to say, bryce dallas howard. >> yeah. >> jimmy: i loved her in it. i'm a big fan of elton john. did you know elton going in to this -- elton music? >> i knew his music. i think the first kind of song as a child, i had, like, the "circle of life," was the first one. and then as you kind of grow up, i kind of hear a lot more. >> jimmy: that was your first elton john >> i think it's gotta be >> jimmy: you're such a baby >> i was very young. >> jimmy: oh, my god >> i may look very old, but i'm actually much younger. >> jimmy: no, i -- wow >> yeah. and then i was kind of immersed in all of his music, which i love >> jimmy: do you have a favorite do you lean towards a favorite one? >> "bennie and the jets" is up there as one of my top favorites. >> jimmy: it just gets -- he plays it better and better as the years goes on. he just gets on the piano, he like - clunk! blink, bang bah bah blunk. >> yeah, no, it's good >> jimmy: did you get to meet him at all >> yeah, i'm lucky enough to call him a friend now, which is lovely >> jimmy

secondly, taron egerton is brilliant. he doesn't look like elton john but it is the physicality of the performance, the chest forward but looking like he is vulnerable behind the glasses. the film is about a little kid who wants a hug. a central relationship between him and bernie taupin, which has the tenderness such as in captain fantastic. it almost looks like it's been directed by ken russell. i'm a big fan of him, dexter fletcher has worked with him. there are scenes that i think ken russell would have loved. tributes to mgm musicals, fantasias. the whole thing just swept me off my feet. authorised but not sanitised, right? absolutely, there was a thing with bohemian rhapsody being family friendly, but this, it's a story of sex and drugs. finally enough, it owes a structural debt to the ian durie biopic, sex & drugs & rock & roll, which was set up as a vaudevillian stage show with ian durie as the unreliable narrator. here you have elton writing his story from rehab. he walks into rehab dressed in a costume that make

my daughter sings that song constantly and it was in "sing" and it was actually performed by taron egerton. >> is that how this whole thing started? >> they were connected in a lot of different ways. when taron auditioned, he sang an elton john song. >> i read somewhere taron was your elton john tutor? >> oh, well, yes. well, he was really helpful because he had spent so much time with elton and i actually -- i was cast six days before i was on camera. >> whoa. >> wow? so there was definitely a learning curve. you're playing someone who is a real human being so you need to -- you need to know what they were like and who they were and so, yes, so elton had obviously shared a lot with taron and taron was really, really helpful and i also spoke with quite a few people confidentially who knew sheila independently of production. >> such a tough balance to get there because he's so open about the problems he had with his mom and his dad. we'll show you just a clip of that right here. >> where are you off to? >> don't know. haven't decided yet. but whatever it is, you're not invited. >> reggie's

today, the "rocketman" himself, taron egerton. and from orange the new black, danielle brooks. plus, get ready, today we again are summer cookoff. all next on "live!" and now, here are kelly ripa and ryan seacrest! [cheers and applause] ♪

egerton, will join us live in studio on thursday and they wanted to get everybody in the spirit before thursday so they sent over some of elton's iconic glasses that taron wore in the film. these aren't exactly elton's glasses. these are like creations based off of his glasses but you don't want to miss their interview on "gma," and "rocketman" hits theaters on may 31st. >> you make that look good. >> i think i should have got a part in the movie. [ applause ] >> no shot. thank you, my man. beautiful. >> great job. >> beautiful. [ applause ] >>> all right, you don't want to miss our next guest. he is a star of abc's hit show "black-ish." i think you saw him maybe a time or two in our last half hour. welcome back, anthony anderson. [ applause ] >> how are you? good to see you, george. [ applause ] >> ah. thank you, love. good to see you. >> how you doing, buddy? >> oh, my goodness. >> thank you. >> step out of your way. >> you are so multitalented. >> i'm a jack of all trades. master of self. >> dear mama, a love letter to mom. >> yes. >> you did that for mother's day. a live show like

please welcome taron egerton. [ applause ] long, long time till touchdown ♪ [ applause ] ♪ i'm not the man they think i am at home oh, no, no, no i'm a rocketman ♪ [ applause ] >> what a welcome. >> you're a loved man. >> thank you. >> very nice. welcome to america, right? >> and we loved you in the kingsmen movies but now you're taking on a living legend in "rocketman." so how was it to play a living legend like elton john. >> it's the greatest honor of my professional life. there's quite a lot of pressure involved. but i was always very passionate about playing this role. i was always very passionate about his story. the script is fantastic. i saw the final cut the other day and i can say hand to my heart it's good. i'm so proud of it. i'm so proud of it. i'm so excited for you all to see it. >> you and sir elton got to be good friends. >> like that. >> i know. i know. >> before we started filming, i went with my girlfriend to his house and we sat in his drawing room on opposite sofas and went across with his hand like that and he dropped a little sort of sparkly thing and he said

. >> you know, taron egerton who plays elton john in this movie we saw in the clip. he said he loved singing in this movie. how about you? >> he's got a brilliant voice so it's easier for him. i was really intimidated and you feel so exposed when you're singing so it's kind of easier to think about the storytelling rather than the notes that i'm trying to do with my voice. >> so we'll go from singing to the show that we both -- and george was -- we were just raving about "the bodyguard." we loved it. [ cheers and applause ] i have to tell you like obviously having been a huge fan of watching robb stark and seeing you in "the body guard" such an about-face. you could see the range of your acting ability so we want more so the fans want to know will there be a "bodyguard 2"? will there be another season? >> i hope so. where they ended up at the end, he needs a bit of a vacation, i think. let's give him a break and then let's catch up with him a year and a half down the line and see where he's at. we're working with the writer and see what come. >> what do you think hap

the night ended with actor taron egerton, who plays elton, singing rocket man on stage alongside the man himself. charlie has been talking to him, and we will run that interview on monday. he has the first sitdown interview with him. it is going to be great. i hope i am not in that film, last september we were filming longest drive, in golf, and they we re longest drive, in golf, and they were filming on the other side of the course. we had to stay out of the shot. we are talking about men's mental health, after quite a shocking admission from danny rose, after opening up about his depression. danny rose says he was embarrased after a club said they wanted to meet him to check he wasn't crazy. the tottenham and england defender says it happened when he spoke to an unnamed club about a potential transfer last summer, after he had opened up, about his struggles with depression. he was speaking as part of a special bbc one programme about men's mental health. chelsea midfielder ruben loftus—cheek is out of england's squad for the nations league finals after rupturing his achilles play

egerton and richard madden. we can be a pioneer in paving that road for paid maternity leave because it is important. those things matter. tennis star victoria azarenka tells us about the challenges of returning to sport after having a baby and how she hopes to help other new mums. thunder road follows a struggling single dad as he finds it hard to adapt after his divorce. we'll be joined by director and star jim cummings and also by billy mcgranaghan, who founded the charity dads house which supports single fathers. that is coming up later but first a summary that is coming up later but first a summary of today's main stories. technology giant google has suspended business with the chinese tech firm, huawei. it comes after the us blacklisted the company, over claims it is spying for the chinese government, which huawei denies. the block means any new smartphones will no longer have popular google apps such as youtube and maps, and will not receive google's security updates and technical support. cabinet ministe