Martha Stewarts wants do-over of 'lazy' documentary, admits she disliked filming with 'intense' director

Martha Stewart wants a documentary do-over.

She made her feelings known during an quality connected "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" Wednesday night.

When asked whether she was "happy" with the documentary, Stewart said, "Yeah, the documentary is fine." 

She continued, "It near retired a lot, truthful I’m going to speech to them astir possibly doing mentation two." 

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Martha Stewart said that portion her documentary was "fine," she felt "it near retired a lot" and wants a "version two." (Katie Jones/WWD via Getty Images)

"There’s a batch much to my life. I’ve lived a agelong time, and I conscionable thought possibly we’ve near retired immoderate stuff, so. Good stuff," the 83-year-old added.

Fallon besides asked whether she had enjoyed the documentary process with manager R.J. Cutler, and Stewart again expressed immoderate dissatisfaction.

"No, I didn’t similar it," she said. "I don’t similar going to psychiatrists and talking astir your feelings and each that stuff. And the manager was truthful aggravated connected delving."

The manner guru did accidental of Cutler’s enactment that "good worldly came out. He got immoderate juice." 

Stewart called her documentary manager R.J. Cutler "so intense" during filming. (Stephanie Augello/Variety via Getty Images)

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Stewart mentioned that she is moving connected an autobiography, which she teased would beryllium "even much revealing."

She added, "Watch out, you don’t cognize what I’ll accidental astir you," teasing Fallon.

Representatives for Stewart, Cutler and Netflix did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.

Since the documentary’s debut connected Netflix connected October 30, Stewart has made respective comments astir not being satisfied with the last product.

"It near retired a lot, truthful I’m going to speech to them astir possibly doing mentation two." 

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In an interrogation with The New York Times, Stewart offered respective scathing remarks astir Cutler.

"R.J. had full access, and helium truly utilized precise little," she said, referring to her archive. "It was just shocking."

Stewart has made respective antagonistic comments astir the finished merchandise since the premiere of her documentary. (Courtesy of Netflix © 2024)

She besides called the film’s 2nd fractional "a spot lazy," adding, "Those past scenes with maine looking similar a lonely aged lady walking hunched implicit successful the garden? Boy, I told him to get escaped of those. And helium refused. I hate those past scenes. Hate them."

Stewart told the outlet that she had precocious had country to repair her ruptured Achilles’ tendon, starring her to limp onscreen. "But again, helium doesn’t adjacent notation wherefore — that I tin unrecorded done that and inactive enactment 7 days a week."

The 83-year-old called immoderate of the documentary "a spot lazy" and disliked however she seemed "like a lonely aged lady" successful moments filmed connected her farm. (Courtesy of Netflix © 2024)

The writer and mogul continued, detailing her dislike for euphony and camera angles, and the documentary leaving retired her grandkids, arsenic good arsenic spending "way excessively overmuch time" connected her 2004 proceedings and situation sentence.

It wasn’t each antagonistic though, arsenic Stewart admitted that she liked the archetypal half, which focused connected her aboriginal life, and that the documentary offers a perchance inspiring connection to viewers.

"So galore girls person already told maine — young women — that watching it gave them a spot that they didn’t cognize they had," she told the outlet. "And that’s the happening I similar astir astir the documentary. It truly shows a beardown pistillate lasting up for herself and surviving done fearfulness arsenic good arsenic immoderate immense success."

Cutler told The New York Times, "I americium truly arrogant of this film, and I respect Martha’s courageousness successful entrusting maine to marque it. I’m not amazed that it’s hard for her to spot aspects of it."

Cutler said helium is "really proud" of the enactment done connected the film, and empathizes with Stewart's frustrations. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for BFI)

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The Oscar-nominated manager added, "It’s a movie, not a Wikipedia page. It’s the communicative of an incredibly absorbing quality being who is analyzable and visionary and brilliant."

In an interrogation with The Wall Street Journal astir 2 weeks aft the premiere, Stewart reiterated, "Way, mode excessively overmuch did not marque it in," and "We’re having a controversy."

She did sermon immoderate of her plans for her autobiography, saying, "I don’t privation the publication to beryllium arsenic agelong arsenic Barbra Streisand’s, due to the fact that I deliberation hers is simply a small excessively long," but "there is simply a batch to accidental successful the autobiography that was not successful the documentary."

According to Stewart successful a abstracted New York Times interview, she had a "collaboration clause" acknowledging that portion Cutler has the last say, helium is "obligated to meaningfully consult with you with respect to the development, production, organisation and exploitation of the picture, and to support you meaningfully and promptly informed of immoderate and each worldly updates."

Stewart claimed she had a "collaboration clause" for the documentary, that acknowledged Cutler had last cut, but that determination would beryllium much connection betwixt the two. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit)

Cutler told the outlet that helium had showed Stewart work-in-progress versions of the movie "three oregon 4 times" and "engaged successful thoughtful conversations with her and her squad astir it," and noted determination is nary "collaboration clause."

"What she had successful her contract, it’s the aforesaid happening arsenic successful each of our contracts," Cutler said. "I’ll amusement you the film. You’ll archer maine what you think. I’ll archer you however I’m responding. You’ll archer maine again what you think. I’ll archer you again however I’m responding. And that volition beryllium that. The last editing decisions are mine."

 "I americium truly arrogant of this film, and I respect Martha’s courageousness successful entrusting maine to marque it. I’m not amazed that it’s hard for her to spot aspects of it."

Cutler responded to immoderate of Stewart’s comments further connected "The Town with Matthew Belloni" podcast this week.

"Guess what? Martha saw the film, and she told maine what she thought astir it," helium said. "It wasn’t astonishing to maine that she would person made a antithetic movie than I made. Of course. She gave maine her feedback, and she was upset that I didn’t marque the changes that she wanted to make—but this is the process."

Cutler said Stewart had fixed feedback but isn't amazed that "she would person made a antithetic movie than I made." (Gilbert Carrasquillo; Rick Rowell; )

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He added that helium had seen her interrogation connected "The Drew Barrymore Show," wherever she praised the "virtues" of the documentary, and added that it’s "very, precise hard to beryllium a taxable of 1 of these films and look astatine it with immoderate objectivity."

"This is simply a process I understand, and you person to beryllium empathetic to the subject, but that doesn’t mean she’s successful power of the movie."