“She was a very powerful presence,” Miller said. “Working with her has been one of the greatest honors of my life — not just as an actress, but as a person. She’s incredibly bright, probably one of the smartest people I’ve ever met.”
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When writing the script for the third “Mad Max,” the filmmakers talked about casting “someone like Tina Turner,” Miller said. When it came time to cast, they thought, “Why don’t you just ask Tina Turner and see if she’s interested?”
After reaching out to Davis, Turner joined. “She said, ‘I’ve always wanted to do something like this,'” Miller said.
director who is in post-production on the fifth Mad Max film, angryIn Sydney, she remembers seeing Turner “preside like a great queen” at a dinner table with Mick Jagger and other rock stars at her 50th birthday party in London.
“It’s like a scene from a movie about Catherine the Great,” he said.
Her personal qualities include patience, discipline — “she’s a meditator, a Buddhist” — and hard-earned wisdom from her early trauma and abuse by Ike Turner, This wisdom enables her to guide others going through difficult times.
George Miller and Tina Turner on the set of “Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.”
“I remember being in a house once and she had to take a call from one of the Jackson brothers,” Miller said. “During that time, she was a mentor to Jackson and Michael Jackson. I realized it happened to everyone, including the Rolling Stones. She pampered like a queen by all of them.
Likewise, Jimmy Barnes said working with Turner was a career highlight.
“What an honor to work with such talented, strong and helpful people,” the great Australian singer wrote on social media. “Singing and sharing the stage with such amazing people is definitely the highlight of my career A big plus.”
Turner was recruited in 1990 to promote the NRL, her song the best, which she later performed in the 1993 finale.This is a cover of the song from 1988 the bestPreviously recorded by Bonnie Tyler.
Barnes recorded another haunting version in 1992, as a duet with Turner, calling it (simple) the bestJohnny Diesel played guitar.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called Turner “a legend who overcame trauma and domestic violence to make music for our lives”. He tweeted his condolences, adding: “Tina is simply the best. Valley.”
Turner’s Nutbush city limits also become uniquely australian phenomenon. Nowhere else in the world does anyone jump on the floor to perform repetitions of all four compass points.
Victorian Liberal Party deputy leader David Southwick spent the late 1980s and 1990s DJing, 21st birthday and bat/mitzvah in Melbourne. Guaranteed access to the dance floor.
“No party goes anywhere walnut It wasn’t played,” Southwick said.
“From what I can remember, it was the most played song, and it was the most played song. It was the most played vinyl record, so you wear out the vinyl. Then when the CD became popular, you The CD had to be replaced because it kept playing.”
Southwick says it has the ability to unite people from all walks of life. “Whether you can dance or not, everyone is involved. It doesn’t matter who you are,” he said, before recalling seeing Kim Beazley, then leader of the federal opposition. walnut at a party.
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“I think it’s a really great inspiring song, and the moves are so easy for everyone to follow…The song is good and the moves are simple, so there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be a part of it,” Southwick said.
On July 6, the Outback Festival’s Birdsville Big Red Bash will attempt to break last year’s Nutbush’s record of 4,084 dancers.
Thursday night local cast and crew tina Plans to acknowledge the singer’s death. “The entire show is a celebration of Tina’s life, and we continue to celebrate each night,” a spokeswoman for the production said.
Turner herself said she hopes the show will entertain Australian audiences. “I want audiences to be inspired, especially women. We want them to leave the theater with their heads held high, determined and ready to take on the world and make the changes they need in their lives,” she said.
Tina Turner performing at Wembley Stadium during her private dancers tour in London in 1985.Credit: Lorne Resnick/Redfins
“My producer, Tali (Pelman), snuck me to a pre-show before the musical opened in London. I sat in the aisle, watched the show, and no one ever knew I was there.
“It’s beautiful and I’m so proud of it. I do feel the musical, and while it brings up many painful memories again, it’s helped me gain acceptance and find harmony in the highs and lows of my life .”
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