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Review: Two-Part Documentary Explores Pee-Wee Herman in His Own Words
- Paul Reubens, known for Pee-wee's Big Adventure, died of cancer in 2023 shortly after completing extensive interviews for a documentary.
- His career included a 1991 arrest for indecent exposure and a later dropped child pornography charge in 2002, with some viewing these incidents as influenced by homophobia.
- The two-part documentary Pee-wee as Himself, directed by Matt Wolf, uses about 40 hours of interviews to explore Reubens' carefully managed image and life before and after his scandal.
- Friends described Reubens as “like a bird that had gotten hit by a truck” after his arrest, while Reubens said he made the film to clarify misunderstandings about himself.
- The film portrays Reubens’ playful charm alongside his struggle to separate persona from personhood, providing a revealing portrait that challenges prior assumptions.
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Matt Wolf on ‘barbed exchanges’ with Paul Reubens being essential to ‘Pee-wee as Himself’
The late actor Paul Reubens sat for more than 40 hours of interviews with documentarian Matt Wolf, whose two-part series Pee-wee as Himself is now showing on HBO. As viewers can see, getting at the man behind the beloved character was not always a walk in the park: “Some conflicts between us were genuinely interpersonal,” says Wolf. “But I would say most of it wasn't about me, and I included these barbed exchanges between us in the film because…
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