Martha Stewart has some choice words for her Netflix documentary.
After the streaming platform released the documentary “Martha” Oct. 30, the 83-year-old called out director R.J. Cutler for using unflattering camera angles and leaving out massive parts of her life.
Now, Stewart is keen on making a second film.
“Yeah, the documentary is fine. It left out a lot, so I’m going to talk to them about maybe doing version 2,” she said during a Wednesday appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy 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,” added Stewart.
Fallon, 50, asked the mogul if she enjoyed “the process” of filming.
“No, I didn’t like it,” she stated. “I don’t like going to psychiatrists and talking about your feelings and all that stuff. And the director was so intense on delving.”
Fallon replied, “Yes, but that’s what we wanna see,” to which Stewart quipped, “I know, but that came out. So good stuff came out. He got some juice.”
The TV personality’s comments come after she revealed how she truly felt about the doc during 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,” confessed Stewart. “But again, he [R.J.] doesn’t even mention why — that I can live through that and still work seven days a week.”
As for using the “ugliest” camera angle despite her protests?
“He had three cameras on me,” Stewart recalled. “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.”
She also had a bone to pick with the music choice used.
“I said to R.J., ‘An essential part of the film is that you play rap music,’ ” she said. “Dr. Dre will probably score it, or [Snoop Dogg] 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.”
Stewart also remarked that the director “used very little” footage from her personal archive. She felt there was “not even a mention” of her two grandchildren, and, instead, the documentary placed too much focus on her 2004 obstruction of justice trial.
The trial, which led to the entrepreneur serving nearly five months in federal prison, was a big focus of the film — something Stewart didn’t take lightly.
“It was not that important,” said Stewart. “The trial and the actual incarceration was less than two years out of an 83-year life. I considered it a vacation, to tell you the truth… the trial itself was extremely boring.”
But it wasn’t all bad, with the hostess explaining, “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.”
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