Alek Keshishian, the director behind the seminal Madonna doc 'Truth or Dare', talks about the over half-decade journey to finishing the documentary about Gomez and her mental health journey.
I read that you had 250 hours of footage heading into the edit. How did you decide what not to include?Only Murders in the Building? I’m telling this one specific story about her. I think we’ve become accustomed to docuseries and we’ve become accustomed to very long documentaries. I asked for an extra year to edit to get from two hours and 30 minutes into something this concise. We’re living in a short attention span world, and yet films seem to be getting longer and longer and longer.
What’s interesting is when I did the 2 hour and 30 minute version, Interscope and Lighthouse were like, “This is great, this is ready to go out.” And I was like, “No, no, no, it’s not.” That version was in some ways delved into more of a morass of darkness. I think that Selena is really lucky. She has a label that wants nothing more than to support her humanitarian mission.
What scene is the most edifying in terms of understanding who Selena is, as the person you understood her to be?
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