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Interview: Matt Wolf On 'Pee-wee As Himself'

Interview: Matt Wolf On 'Pee-wee As Himself'

The director talks about the challenges of making a documentary about a guarded subject who also unfortunately died before filming could be finished.

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Christopher Campbell
May 20, 2025
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With the two-part documentary Pee-wee as Himself, Matt Wolf proves, yet again, that celebrity-focused films are not all disposable fluff. They just need great filmmakers like Wolf (or Morgan Neville, Davis Guggenheim, Lana Wilson, Reginald Hudlin, R.J. Cutler, Susan Lacy, Ryan White, Asif Kapadia, among others) to tell great stories and consciously avoi…

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