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Martha Stewart doc director reveals her brutal phone call to him as he fires back at her criticism of 'lazy' film Have YOU got a story? Email [email protected] By SAMEER SURI and BRIAN GALLAGHER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 23:13 GMT, 15 November 2024 | Updated: 23:14 GMT, 15 November 2024 e-mail View comments The director of Martha Stewart 's new Netflix documentary has revealed her brutal phone call to him, as he pushes back against her criticism of the film.
Stewart, 83, participated in the Netflix movie and granted extensive on-camera interviews for it, but has been publicly scathing about the finished product . She complained that the film was 'lazy' and 'left a lot out,' to the point she hopes to approach the streaming service about cutting together a 'Version Two.' Now the documentary's director RJ Cutler has broken his silence on her remarks, giving his side of the story on the podcast The Town With Matthew Belloni .
He dished that 'I fantasize about one day publishing the text messages that she sent me,' adding that 'Martha expressed herself fully to me in her text messages' with regards to her misgivings about the movie. Cutler then shared a hilarious exchange in which Stewart rang him asking for a favor and he replied: 'Of course, Martha, I’d be happy to do it but you need to be nice to me!' to which she retorted: 'Oh, never mind, I’ll ask someone else,' and hung up. The director of Martha Stewart 's new Netflix documentary has revealed her brutal phone call to him, as he pushes back against her criticism of the film, in which she is pictured The filmmaker, who has previously directed documentaries about Anna Wintour, Billie Eilish, John Belushi and Elton John, was frank about his creative differences with the subject of his latest feature, entitled simply Martha.
'Martha saw the film and she told me what she thought about it, and it wasn’t surprising to me that she would’ve a different film that I made, of course,' he said. 'And she gave me her feedback, and she was upset that I didn’t make the changes that she wanted to me, but this is process,' Cutler argued. 'It takes a tremendous amount of courage on her part to trust me.
I respect that, and in return I share the film with her and have conversations with her about the film. If she has ideas that I think are good ideas and will help the film that I’m making, I’ll take a good idea from everybody, believe me.' He was less receptive to the idea that the entire movie be scored with rap - a concept floated by Stewart, who is famously friendly with Snoop Dogg.
'It’s very, very hard to be a subject of one of these films, and to look at it with any sort of objectivity, and so this is a process I understand, and you have to be empathetic of the subject,' he said. 'But that doesn’t mean that she’s in control of the movie.' Cutler's remarks come after Stewart publicly aired out her blistering feelings 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. Now the documentary's director RJ Cutler has broken his silence on her remarks, giving his side of the story; he is pictured Tuesday in New York 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 Read More Martha Stewart, 83, is youthful in leather slacks after hitting back at her documentary director for making her appear 'old' '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. 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.' 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. In her new Netflix documentary, the 83-year-old exposed some of the secrets of her marriage to Andrew 'Andy' Stewart, which ended in divorce in 1990; pictured at the wedding in 1961 '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.
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.' Martha Stewart Anna Wintour New York Times Share or comment on this article: Martha Stewart doc director reveals her brutal phone call to him as he fires back at her criticism of 'lazy' film e-mail Add comment.
