Martha Stewart’s Documentary Director Breaks His Silence on Her Criticism of the Film
It’s Martha Stewart‘s world, and R.J. Cutler just documented it.
After the Martha Stewart Living founder let her displeasure with the recent documentary about her be known, the director of the Netflix film is sharing his thoughts on the situation.
“Martha saw the film, and she told me what she thought about it,” Cutler told Matt Beloni on the Nov. 13 episode of his podcast The Town. “It wasn’t surprising to me that she would’ve made a different film than I made. She gave me her feedback, and she was upset that I didn’t make the changes that she wanted to make, but this is the process.”
The director—who also made 2009’s The September Issue about Anna Wintour and 2021’s Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry—revealed that he’d had extensive exchanges with Stewart, 83, that will never see the light of day.
“We had many conversations, and one day I’ll publish—I won’t, really!—but I would fantasize about one day publishing the text messages,” Cutler joked. “I will tell you that Martha expressed herself fully to me in her text messages.”
