Martha Stewart’s new documentary Martha is out, and the American businesswoman and writer has seen it – and she’s not exactly a fan.
Speaking with The New York Times, Stewart gave a very frank review of the documentary created by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker R.J. Cutler, which features candid interviews with her.
“R.J. had total access and he really used very little,” Stewart said referring to the archive of photos, letters and diary entries she provided to him.
“It was just shocking.”
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Stewart aired her grievances about specific scenes towards the end of the film that she’d tried to get Cutler to cut.
”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. I hate those last scenes. Hate them,” she said.
“I had ruptured my Achilles’ tendon. I had to have this hideous operation. And so I was limping a little.
“But again, he doesn’t even mention why – that I can live through that and still work seven days a week.”
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She also wasn’t a fan of the way she had been filmed, claiming Cutler had chosen to film her with the “ugliest angle” and that “not even a mention” had been included of her grandchildren.
Stewart also felt the music of the film was “lousy” sharing that she felt it would be “essential” for the film to be scored with rap music.
“I said to R.J., ‘An essential part of the film is that you play rap music.’ Dr Dre will probably score it, or Snoop or Fredwreck. I said, ‘I want that music’. And then he gets some lousy classical score in there, which has nothing to do with me’.
The New York Times journalist clarified Stewart had requested the song Beautiful by her close friend Snoop Dogg be added to the end credits after she saw an unfinished cut of the film.
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Stewart also revealed that she felt the documentary spent “way too much time” on her 2004 trial and prison sentence, saying it was “less than two years out of an 83-year life” and “was not that important”.
“I considered it a vacation, to tell you the truth,” she added of her prison sentence.
It wasn’t a complete flop in Stewart’s eyes; she “love[s] 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,” she said.
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Stewart is proud of the message of strength the documentary provided for young female viewers.
Cutler also provided his own comment to The New York Times.
“I am really proud of this film and I admire Martha’s courage in entrusting me to make it. I’m not surprised that it’s hard for her to see aspects of it,” he said.
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