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HBO’s Faye Dunaway Documentary Leans Into Her Difficult Reputation: ‘This Isn’t a Vanity Piece’


Laurent Bouzereau makes it clear from the outset of his HBO doc about Faye Dunaway that he was not interested in creating another vanity project

I really would like to shoot.” Minutes later Bouzereau cuts to the infamous “Tonight Show” clip where Johnny Carson asks Bette Davis who she would never want to work with again and she replies, “Faye Dunaway. The actress reveals that director Arthur Penn insisted on casting her in “Bonnie and Clyde, in spite of Warren Beatty’s hesitation. Bouzereau, who also directed HBO’s “Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind” doc, worked with Steven Spielberg‘s Amblin Partners on “Faye,” which will be released on July 13.

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