Wouldn’t you just love to watch a really in-depth documentary about Oprah Winfrey? Well, the good news is that one of those exists, and the bad news is that Oprah does not want you to see it. According to a report in “Page Six,” the media mogul bought the rights to her documentary back from Apple TV+ and is keeping it on the shelf.
The doc, helmed by filmmaker Kevin Macdonald, has been completed but apparently isn’t to Oprah’s liking. “Kevin made the film, but Oprah didn’t like it and he refused to change it, and Oprah has paid back her fee to Apple,” a source told “Page Six.” I kind of think that the subject of the documentary shouldn’t be allowed to do that, but that’s just one woman’s opinion.
A rep for Oprah pushed back on that narrative, telling the outlet that while she is “grateful for the time and energy” that was put into the project, she has decided that it isn’t “the right time to do a documentary.”
Hmmm. I wonder what that means. Should we take it at face value and believe that Oprah wants to wait for the perfect moment to share her story via documentary? Or do we think that maybe there was something in the doc that Oprah objected to, and she figured it easier to just buy it back to keep the public from seeing? Was she promised hagiography and got, heaven forbid, an actually probing documentary? If that is the case, what doesn’t she want us to know? Did Stedman reveal too much?