“Martha” director responds to Martha Stewart's criticism of documentary: 'This is the process'

"It wasn't surprising to me that she would've made a different film than I made," R.J. Cutler said.

Martha Stewart has a lot to say about the new Netflix documentary about her, and not all of it is positive. But in a new interview, Martha director R.J. Cutler said he wasn't too surprised by her objections.

"Guess what? Martha saw the film and she told me what she thought about it," Cutler told Matthew Belloni on the latest episode of The Town podcast. "It wasn't surprising to me that she would've made a different film that 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."

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One of Stewart's main criticisms, as she expressed to The New York Times last month, was apparently the film's score by Colin Stetson (a former member of Arcade Fire and Bon Iver who also scored Hereditary and The Menu). She would've preferred to hear hip-hop music, like the kind made by her longtime friend Snoop Dogg.

“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," Stewart told the Times. "I said, ‘I want that music.’ And then he gets some lousy classical score in there, which has nothing to do with me.”

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Cutler responded directly to Stewart's criticism of the music on The Town, saying that his subject has the right to be upset but he has final cut on major storytelling decisions like that.

"The subjectivity of being Martha Stewart in this situation, the vulnerability that you're in, has to be responded to with empathy and support. That doesn't mean it has to be responded to with changes to the film, Cutler said. "Martha felt the whole thing should be scored differently, but the score is extraordinary."

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Since the Times interview, Stewart seems to have softened a bit on her public opinion of the documentary. In her appearance on The Tonight Show earlier this week, Stewart was more conciliatory, saying Martha was "fine" but that "it left out a lot," to the point that she wouldn't mind making a second installment to cover more aspects of her life. She also said she hated digging deep on herself, even if it got good results.

"I didn't like it. I don't like going to psychiatrists and talking about your feelings, and all that stuff," Stewart told Jimmy Fallon. "The director was so intense on delving, delving!"

"Yes, but that's what we want to see!" Fallon responded.

"Yeah, so good stuff came out," Stewart said. "He got some juice."

Stewart also appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show on Tuesday. The interview went viral for the moment when Stewart playfully pushed Barrymore away from touching her too much, but she also expressed more positive thoughts about the film and sharing it with her grandchildren.

"They watched my documentary," Stewart said. "Jude, who's 13, said 'it was very good, I think I'll watch it again.'" She added, "I thought it was a good representation of a 20th and 21st century woman, giving hope to the female gender in America."

For those who want to form their own opinion of the film, Martha is now streaming on Netflix.