Martha Stewart has expressed her dissatisfaction with her Netflix documentary. Following the release of the documentary titled 'Martha' on October 30, the 83-year-old criticized director R.J. Cutler for using unflattering camera angles and omitting significant aspects of her life. Stewart is now eager to produce 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 mentioned during an 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," Stewart added.
Fallon, 50, inquired if she enjoyed the filming process. "No, I didn’t like it," the businesswoman responded. "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."
Stewart's comments follow her revealing her true feelings about the documentary 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," Stewart confessed. "But again, he [R.J.] doesn’t even mention why — that I can live through that and still work seven days a week."
Regarding the use of the "ugliest" camera angle despite her objections, Stewart recalled, "He had three cameras on me, 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 took issue with the music choice. "I said to R.J., 'An essential part of the film is that you play rap music,'" she reminisced. "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 further noted 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 focused too much on her 2004 obstruction of justice trial. The trial, which led to her serving nearly five months in federal prison, was a significant focus of the film—something Stewart didn’t appreciate.
"It was not that important," Stewart said. "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." However, she did appreciate the first half of the documentary, 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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