“The idea that he was left alone a lot as a child tells a lot about his mania and his peculiar kind of comedy,” said Gibney. One of Gibney’s chief interests was understanding the origin of Williams’s wacky, rapid-fire comedy, which often switched between voices and characters in a matter of seconds. He was able to give us good notes when we were editing.” I could get the performance out of people and get them to open up. “He’s very cerebral, and I’m all from the heart. “We were a good match,” said Zenovich of her partnership with the Oscar-winning documentarian behind such films as Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and the Scientology exposé Going Clear. Rather than battle it out, the two chose to collaborate, with Gibney serving as producer while Zenovich directed. The other was one of her mentors, Alex Gibney, with whom she had just worked on the recent film Water & Power: A California Heist. Zenovich, a documentarian since the late 1990s, was initially one of two filmmakers pursuing a Williams project. “I’m like a wannabe psychologist-private investigator trying to figure it all out.” “I didn’t get a lot of answers, but it was something I wanted to put out there,” Zenovich said. One agreed to sit for the filmmaker, but wasn’t able to really articulate how his appearance in Williams’s life affected the comedian. Something else that interested Zenovich were the two half-brothers that Williams didn’t learn about until he was eight years old. It’s very touchy when you are dealing with people’s lives.” “What said was something that was never said before,” said Zenovich.
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Through interviews with his closest friends and family, including Billy Crystal, David Letterman, Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Martin, his first wife, Valerie Velardi, and his oldest son, Zak Williams, the doc gives a full portrayal of a complex character. He also struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, quitting substances temporarily after the death of John Belushi (Williams was one of three people with Belushi the night of his death). A constant fear of Williams’s was losing his spark. The two-hour film explores his childhood as the only son of wealthy absentee parents, his burst onto the comedy scene, and the challenges he faced in his 60s to stay relevant after his brand of zany, physical antics went out of fashion.
“He lost his friend.”Ĭome Inside My Mind celebrates Williams’s wild, complicated, and often joyous life, while also examining what made him tick and how he shaped his singular brand of manic comedy. “I’m really fine with that,” she said in a recent interview.
The film’s director, Marina Zenovich, understands, because Goldthwait had already declined to participate in her movie.
Williams’s close friend and fellow funnyman Bobcat Goldthwait has already said he likely won’t watch the film-not out of protest, but because he misses Williams too much. When the HBO documentary Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind premieres Monday night, it will be tough viewing for many people who were close to the troubled comedian-who took his own life in 2014 while suffering from Lewy body dementia following a misdiagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.
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