Just days after Martha Stewart slammed her own Netflix documentary as ‘lazy,’ she is hinting another one might be in the works.
Netflix released the documentary simply dubbed Martha on October 30 from director R.J. Cutler, who has previously directed documentaries about Billie Eilish, John Belushi and Elton John.
Stewart, 83, bashed the director for using unflattering camera angles and admitting she hates the final sH๏τs of the film.
Still, despite all the criticism, the mogul seems keen on making another film, as she teased in an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
When Fallon asked her if she was, ‘happy with the documentary,’ she admitted approaching Netflix to do another… simply because so much was left out.
Just days after Martha Stewart slammed her own Netflix documentary as ‘lazy,’ she is hinting another one might be in the works
Still, despite all the criticism, the mogul seems keen on making another film, as she teased in an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
‘Yeah, the documentary is fine. It left out a lot, so I’m going to talk to them about maybe doing Version 2,’ Stewart told Fallon.
‘There’s a lot more to my life. I’ve lived a long time, and I just thought maybe we’ve left out some stuff, so. Good stuff,’ she said.
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Fallon also asked if she enjoyed, ‘the process,’ mentioning scenes where she tells the director to skip certain things, and Stewart did not enjoy it.
‘No, I didn’t like it. I don’t like going to psychiatrists and talking about your feelings and all that stuff. And the director was so intense on delving,’ she said.
Fallon insisted, ‘Yes, but that’s what we wanna see,’ as she added, ‘I know, but that came out. So good stuff came out. He got some juice.’
Just days earlier, she offered some rather scathing remarks about the film in an interview with The New York Times.
‘Those last scenes with me looking like a lonely old lady walking hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to get rid of those. And he refused,’ she insisted.
‘But again, he [R.J.] doesn’t even mention why — that I can live through that and still work seven days a week,’ she quipped.
‘Yeah, the documentary is fine. It left out a lot, so I’m going to talk to them about maybe doing Version 2,’ Stewart told Fallon
‘There’s a lot more to my life. I’ve lived a long time, and I just thought maybe we’ve left out some stuff, so. Good stuff,’ she said
‘No, I didn’t like it. I don’t like going to psychiatrists and talking about your feelings and all that stuff. And the director was so intense on delving,’ she said.
Martha was particularly irritated about R.J. using the ‘ugliest’ camera angle, despite her insisting that he should change it
Martha was particularly irritated about R.J. using the ‘ugliest’ camera angle, despite her insisting that he should change it.
‘He had three cameras on me,’ she said. ‘And he chooses to use the ugliest angle. And I told him, ‘Don’t use that angle! That’s not the nicest angle. You had three cameras. Use the other angle.’ He would not change that.’
If that wasn’t enough, Martha expressed upset over the documentary’s music too, confessing that she would have preferred if rap music had been used rather than the classical score that R.J. went for.
She was also frustrated that several scenes were cut, including details about her Martha Stewart magazine, her grandchildren, her love of travel, and how her lawyer Alan Dershowitz used to flirt with her in the 1960s despite her being married.
However, she added, ‘I love the first half of the documentary. It gets into things that many people don’t know anything about, which is what I like about it.’