NBC Touts ‘Weiner’ Documentary Providing ‘Nuanced’ Portrait of Disgraced Democrat

Kyle Drennen | May 20, 2016
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In an interview on Friday’s NBC Today with the filmmakers of the newly-released documentary about disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, perplexed co-host Savannah Guthrie wondered: “How on earth did you get this access? But why on earth would Anthony Weiner grant that kind of access, knowing what he knew about himself?”

That question teed up co-creator Elise Steinberg to declare: “...it's a question that we actually posed to Anthony....he says that he wanted to be viewed as the full person that he was instead of a punch line. And that was certainly our intention with this film, to take someone who had been just ridiculed and reduced and offer a more nuanced and complex portrait.”

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