Martha Stewart teases ANOTHER Netflix documentary after blasting it as ‘lazy’
Netflix released the documentary, simply called Martha, on October 30 from director RJ Cutler, who previously directed documentaries about Billie Eilish, John Belushi and Elton John.
Stewart, 83, slammed the director for using unflattering camera angles and admitted she hates the film’s final shots.
Still, despite all the criticism, the mogul seems eager to make another movie, 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 that she approached Netflix about making another one… simply because so much was left out.
Just days after Martha Stewart labeled her own Netflix documentary “lazy,” she hints that another documentary may be in the works
Despite all the criticism, however, the mogul seems eager to make another movie, as she teased in an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
‘Yes, the documentary is fine. There’s a lot left out, so I’m going to talk to them about maybe version 2,” Stewart told Fallon.
‘There’s a lot more to my life. I’ve lived a long time, and I thought maybe we left some things out, so. Good stuff,” she said.
Fallon also asked if she liked “the process,” mentioning scenes where she tells the director to skip certain things, and Stewart didn’t like 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 intensely digging,” she said.
Fallon insisted: ‘Yes, but that’s what we want to see,” as she added, “I know, but that’s what came out. So good things came out of it. He got some juice.”
A few days earlier, she made some rather scathing comments about the film in an interview The New York Times.
‘Those last scenes where I look like a lonely old lady hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to put that away. And he refused,” she insisted.
“But then again, him [R.J.] “I don’t even mention why – that I can survive that and still work seven days a week,” she joked.
‘Yes, the documentary is fine. There’s a lot left out, so I’m going to talk to them about maybe version 2,” Stewart told Fallon
‘There’s a lot more to my life. I’ve lived a long time, and I thought maybe we left some things out, 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 intensely digging,” she said.
Martha was especially annoyed because RJ used the “ugliest” camera angle, despite her insisting that he change it
Martha was especially annoyed because RJ used the “ugliest” camera angle, despite her insisting that he change it.
“He had three cameras pointed at me,” she said. ‘And he chooses to use the ugliest angle. And I said to him, ‘Don’t use that corner! That’s not the prettiest angle. You had three cameras. Use the other corner.’ He wouldn’t change that.’
As if that wasn’t enough, Martha also expressed her dismay over the music in the documentary, confessing that she would have preferred if rap music had been used instead of the classical score RJ opted for.
She was also frustrated that several scenes had been removed, including details about her Martha Stewart magazine, her grandchildren, her love of travel and how her lawyer Alan Dershowitz flirted with her in the 1960s despite her being married.
However, she added, “I love the first half of the documentary. It’s about things that a lot of people don’t know about, and I like that about it.’