If any of the major studios had the brass balls to take on "Behind The Candelabra," we think Michael Douglas probably would've been a no brainer as an Oscar contender, particularly judging by this new trailer unveiled over at The Guardian. It's a totally transformative performance and it looks like a total blast, and while Douglas stuck with the project -- put on hold as he battled cancer, and revived once he recovered -- and was open to all challenges the script brought with it, he did have his limits. "Liberace loved sex and I didn't have a problem with that. But, at one point, Steven Soderbergh wanted to show Lee [as Liberace was known] watching a gay porno," Douglas told Vulture. "I said, 'Steven—you can't do this!' He said, 'It's HBO—it's all right!' I said, 'It's not that: I'd like my kids to see this R-rated movie, but I don't want to show them a fourteen-inch dick!' It was the only thing I objected to, so we cut to different parts of the apartment during the porno." That one...
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