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
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