5 Key Takeaways From Hulu's New Hillary Clinton Docuseries
“I’m a private person,” Hillary Clinton says in Hillary, the new four-part documentary series about her life that premieres Friday on Hulu.
Director Nanette Burnstein wanted to see if she could get her to open up. In January of 2018, Clinton’s camp came to Burnstein with 2,000 hours of a behind-the-scenes footage and a production deal with Hulu to make a documentary about her run at the White House. “I changed the concept to doing a biopic of her life,” Burnstein tells Rolling Stone. “I felt that there was a much more interesting story to tell with access to her, to tell her life story. There were so many more important themes.”
Burnstein notes that she had to convince Clinton — who over the course of decades in the political spotlight has shouldered a reputation for being calculating and inauthentic — on the idea of delving into some of the more painful portions of her life, but that she was ultimately receptive to the idea. “I was able to show her how I was really focusing on the history of the feminist movement and partisan politics and all of these different ways her life is instructive and emblematic of this history that really matters to her. That made sense to her.”
Clinton seems to have enjoyed the experience. Since Burnstein sat down with her for seven days in November of 2018, the former first lady has opened up to Howard Stern, appeared on several talk shows, and announced she’s starting her own podcast. “I think it was the first step,” Burnstein says of the documentary’s role in Clinton’s surprisingly candid new public persona. “It was like pulling off the Band-Aid. For the first time you’re not in public office … After 40 years, it’s the first time where she doesn’t have to worry about that. It’s a new era.”
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