![]() ![]() Still someone else was deciding what they were going to put out there about her. So even though she was way ahead of the game at harnessing the power of the media, she couldn’t control her narrative. So we feel it was the right time, and perhaps this film wouldn’t have been made in this way even five years ago - certainly, not 10 years ago.ĪLEXANDRA LACEY Also, she was famous at a time when the tabloids fully dominated public perception, the narrative. That there was empowerment in her life as well as her being exploited. We were so surprised to find out some of the things we found about her. When Alex and I really started looking at this, we knew a lot of it - the public stuff - and then we started really doing a deep dive. We’ve had other documentaries about women who were also equally idolized and criticized, and I think many of them have been portrayed almost like cartoonish characters and caricatures and never really got under their skin, so to speak. We are looking at these kinds of women differently now, through a different kind of lens, perhaps with different teams looking at these women. As it turns out, as you can see in the film, she’s extremely complex and complicated and flawed and wonderful. But I think we just wanted to really get below that and find out who she was as a human being. URSULA MACFARLANE We are in a, hopefully, post-#MeToo phase of our conversation with society, and I think it is a time when we’re beginning to look at those iconic women in a different way. Anna Nicole Smith fits into this trend, but why did you want to do this now? In recent years, there have been quite a few documentaries that examine the way women were treated in the 2000s. Macfarlane and Lacey sat down with THR ahead of the documentary’s release to talk about why they wanted to rehash Smith’s saga now how she framed her rags-to-riches story (and how those who knew her are now reframing it) and how they handled some of the doc’s more shocking revelations. It also asks, whether Smith was a street smart single mother who wielded the tools of entertainment to achieve the “American dream.” Howard Marshall through the rise of her own empire amid a tabloid circus and her dark end.īetween that, the film asks what role multiple industries - the obvious reality TV and tabloid media, as well as others like diet and weight loss companies - played in her public perception (and at times, humiliation).īut, through a series of interviews with those who knew her, archival photos and video, and more - including never before seen material - it also asks whether that frenzy that surrounded her was merely the result of a vicious culture repeatedly victimizing one woman. Instead, the film - which dropped May 16 on the streamer - interrogates Smith and her journey from Houston to the arms of billionaire J. AMC's Co-Heads of Scripted Exit for Netflix
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