Netflix released the documentary simply called Martha on October 30 from director RJ Cutler, who previously directed documentaries on Billie Eilish, John Belushi and Elton John.
Stewart, 83, criticized the director for using unflattering camera angles and admitting that he hates the film’s final shots.
Still, despite all the criticism, the mogul seems interested in making another movie, as she joked in an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
When Fallon asked her if she was “happy with the documentary,” she admitted to approaching Netflix about making another one… simply because so many things were left out.
Just days after Martha Stewart criticized her own Netflix documentary as “lazy,” she’s hinting there could be another one in the works.
Still, despite all the criticism, the mogul seems interested in making another movie, as she joked in an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
‘Yes, the documentary is good. “They left out a lot of things, so I’m going to talk to them about the possibility of doing Version 2,” Stewart told Fallon.
‘There is much more to my life. I’ve been around a long time and I thought maybe we’d left some things out. Good things,” he said.
Fallon also asked him if he enjoyed “the process,” mentioning scenes where he tells the director to skip certain things, and Stewart didn’t enjoy it.
‘No, I didn’t like it. I don’t like going to psychiatrists and talking about your feelings and all that. And the director was very intense in going deeper,” he said.
Fallon insisted: ‘Yes, but that’s what we want to see,” he added, “I know, but that came out. Then good things came out. It has a little juice.
Just a few days earlier, he made some pretty scathing comments about the film in an interview with The New York Times.
—Those last scenes in which she looked like a lonely old woman walking hunched over the garden? Wow, I told him to get rid of those. And he refused,’ he insisted.
“But again, he (RJ) doesn’t even mention why: that I can live that and still work seven days a week,” he joked.
‘Yes, the documentary is good. “He left a lot of things out, so I’m going to talk to them about maybe doing Version 2,” Stewart told Fallon.
‘There is much more to my life. I’ve been around a long time and I thought maybe we’d left some things out. Good things,” he said.
‘No, I didn’t like it. I don’t like going to psychiatrists and talking about your feelings and all that. And the director was very intense in going deeper,” he said.
Martha was particularly irritated that RJ used the “uglier” camera angle, even though she insisted that he should change it.
Martha was particularly irritated that RJ used the “uglier” camera angle, even though she insisted that he should change it.
“I had three cameras,” he said. And choose to use the ugliest angle. And I said, ‘Don’t use that angle! That’s not the best angle. You had three cameras. Use the other angle. He wouldn’t change that.’
If that wasn’t enough, Martha also expressed her discomfort with the documentary’s music, confessing that she would have preferred rap music to have been used instead of the classical score that RJ chose.
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 even though she was married.
However, he added: ‘I love the first half of the documentary. He goes into things that a lot of people don’t know anything about, which is what I like about him.’