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Star Struck: Emmy Voters Have An Abundance Of Celebrity-Focused Documentaries To Cast Their Ballots For
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Steve Martin, Tyler Perry featured in celebrity-focued documentaries making a run for Emmys.
“At first I said, ‘What don’t we already know?’ And he said, ‘I said the same thing myself.’ But then I started thinking about how weird and unusual it is that Arnold’s been successful in so many completely different areas.” That would be bodybuilding, acting, and governating — as the chief executive of California (or Cal-LEE-fornia, as he famously pronounces it) from 2003-2011. “And that became the theme and the structure of the documentary, to show how Sly took his life experiences, put it into the arc, and had that translate to these cinematic and iconic characters in films like Rocky and Rambo and The Expendables, where you could tap into their journey and their triumphs and their desire to be more than what the world is willing to give them and go beyond the rejection.” The Super Models, directed by Larissa Bills and Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, not only documents the ascent of Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista, but a slice of cultural history in the ’80s and ’90s.
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