LOS ANGELES, Feb 14 — The director of Netflix’s new Kanye West documentary was left disappointed — though not surprised — by the controversial rapper’s last-minute demand to recut a movie decades in the making, he told AFP.
Ironically, Simmons had gone to significant lengths to ensure West was happy, scrapping plans to first release the footage back in 2005 because West “said he wasn’t ready for the world to see the real him.”But in a seeming reconciliation, West showed up at a Hollywood screening of the documentary Friday, hugging Simmons and telling the audience that “people try to cancel us and we all run away from each other and scatter or we be not talking to each other, not communicating.
“I just felt like I had to put the camera down so I could listen and be there for him as a brother and not as a director, so that’s the reason I put it down.At Friday’s screening, West said he had made “what y’all might think are mistakes in public” to show the world that limits imposed on Black people are “just a smokescreen.”‘Carefree’ Kanyehas undoubtedly drawn more publicity to the documentary.