New photos from Steven Soderbergh’s final film and biopic, Behind The Candelabra, have been released. The pictures reveal Cheyenne Jackson playing Billy Leatherwood the famous protégée of entertainer and eccentric Liberace. These are the first images of Jackson who was absent in the recent trailer.

The production shots are just another teaser for Liberace fans who are impatiently anticipating the Cannes listed film.

Matt Damon, sitting with co-star Michael Douglas, director Steven Soderbergh and producer Jerry Weintraub, faced a ballroom filled with journalists on Friday (4 January) to answer questions about the upcoming HBO film Behind the Candelabra about Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson.

When one journalist asked Damon of he considered the film to be a comedy - perhaps because Liberace was such a flamboyant performer - the actor uttered a quick and definitive 'No.'

Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh said Friday (4 January)  that he was 'stunned' when every single major Hollywood studio passed on making his movie Behind the Candelbra which will air on HBO this spring.

The movie tells the story of the flamboyant star Liberace and his relationship with a much younger man named Scott Thorson.

'They said it was too gay,' Soderbergh told Gay Star News and other outlets during the annual Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena.