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‘Mr. Scorsese’ Director Rebecca Miller Got Martin Scorsese To Open Up, Then Covid Gave Him Time – Contenders TV: Docs + Unscripted
Documentary filmmaker Rebecca Miller was acquainted with the subject of her latest, Apple TV’s five-part Mr. Scorsese, through her husband Daniel Day-Lewis, one of legendary director Martin Scorsese’s cinematic muses. But when it came to getting the filmmaker to commit to opening up about his life and career, it required a little bit of an audition process on her part — and one quirk of fate that freed up Scorsese’s schedule: the Covid pandemic.
“I cold-called his producing partner in documentaries, Margaret Bodde, and I said: ‘Look, this is crazy — I know somebody must be making a big movie about Marty, but if they’re not, I’d be really interested,’” Miller revealed during the series’ Deadline Contenders Television: Documentary panel.
“She asked him, and he said for me to write a letter,” Miller continued. “So I wrote him a letter and told him sort of how I would approach it. And then he said, ‘Well, let her come to a meeting. Come meet me.’ So I came and we met, and by the end of it, he was saying, ‘Well, we could shoot here, we should do –” And I was like, “Wait, are we doing … is this something that’s happening?” And then I called everybody, I said, ‘I think we’re making the movie – at least, wait a minute, hang on a second—’ But it really did happen.”
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Source: deadline.com