Martha Stewart Hated Making ‘Martha,’ Wants To Do It Again

If you’re in the camp of people who either hate Martha Stewart so much that you didn’t watch the new Martha documentary on Netflix, or did watch it but felt your hatred for her grow stronger as a result, stop reading now. I am not one of you. I was a casual appreciator of Stewart’s essence before the doc, and now I count myself among the most die-hard of fans, even though I can’t cook.

Stewart, predictably, feels tepid about the film at best. This is exactly my point—I love her lack of enthusiasm.

“Oh yeah, the documentary is fine,” she told Jimmy Fallon this week. “It left out a lot, so I’m going to talk to them about maybe doing version two. There’s a lot more to my life. I mean, you know, I’ve lived a long time and I just thought, you know, maybe we’ve left out some stuff.”

I mean, it felt pretty comprehensive to me, babe. Except for the part when you were talking about your ex-husband’s affair and then the person behind the camera asked about the affair you’d allegedly had and you were like, “Oh, it was nothing.” Would love more information on that.

But that interview process was her least favorite part. “I don’t like going to psychiatrists and talking about your feelings and all of that stuff. And the director was so intense on delving,” she shared. That was a big theme of the doc: how cold and unfeeling she is, which is precisely why I love her.

Director R.J. Cutler is unshaken by Stewart’s criticism. “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 she wanted to make. But this is the process. It takes a tremendous amount of courage on her part to trust me, I respect that. In return, I share the film with her and have conversations with her about the film. If she has ideas that I think are good ideas and will help the film that I’m making, I’ll take a good idea from anybody,” he said.

Well, sir, how about the suggestion that part two’s soundtrack is comprised entirely of hip-hop music, like the kind Stewart’s bestie Snoop Dogg makes?

“I said to R.J., ‘An essential part of the film is that you play rap music.’ Dr. Dre will probably score it, or Snoop or Fredwreck. I said, ‘I want that music.’ And then he gets some lousy classical score in there, which has nothing to do with me,” she said.

Never change, Martha.