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Martha Stewart has been on it lately. Spill tea Unpleasant The New Yorker about what happened to her and Ina Garten. She then doubled down on her memory of the events WWHL. Now giving a scathing review of it Martathe new Netflix doc about her, to the New York Times. According to the NYT, Stewart went on a rant for “about 30 almost continuous minutes” about what she didn’t like about RJ Cutler’s view of her life. “RJ had full access, and he actually used very little,” she said. “It was normal shocking.” Among the things she struggled with were the music choices, the fact that she was a frail old woman today, and the overemphasis on her 2004 insider trading trial and prison sentence. “It wasn’t that important. The trial and actual incarceration lasted less than two years of an 83-year-old life. I thought of it as a vacation, to tell you the truth,” Stewart said. “The test itself was extremely boring. Even the judge fell asleep. RJ didn’t even put that in there. The judge does sleeping on the couch. I wrote it in my diary every day.”
Perhaps we can forgive someone who is fixated on that process. It is The first thought of many people when they think of Martha Stewart. But the other big thing: them friendship with Snoop Dogg – got short shrift with the soundtrack. “I said to RJ, ‘An essential part of the film is that you play rap music,’” she said. “Dr. Dre will probably score it, or Snoop or Fredwreck. I said, ‘I want that music.’ And then he gets a crappy classical score on top of that, which has nothing to do with me. There’s a Snoop song in the credits, but that’s not enough for Martha!
Stewart also criticized the way Cutler filmed her. “He had three cameras pointed at me. And he chooses to use the ugliest angle,” Stewart said. “And I said to him, ‘Don’t use that corner! That’s not the prettiest angle. You had three cameras. Use the other corner.’ He wouldn’t change that.” She also objected to the last scene, in which Stewart does a bit of hobbling in her garden. It turned out that she had just undergone surgery on her Achilles tendon. ‘Those last scenes where I look like a lonely old lady hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to put that away. And he refused,” she said. “I hate those last scenes. Hate them.” But other than that: quite a cool movie.