“One of the most public and complicated debates around mental health really was the Britney Spears story,” says Erin Lee Carr, the documentary’s director
recently spoke to Carr about the process of making the film, the relevance of Spears’s case to mental health and disability rights across the U.S., and the long list of pop culture figures who deserve to be reconsidered. Read the interview, below.Two and a half, actually!I was a Britney person, and my twin sister was a Christina [Aguilera] person. When we were getting ready for the premiere in New York, we were absolutely blasting “Womanizer” and “Stronger” and “Heaven on Earth.
Dear Lord, I hope so. Right? I mean, [given] the sheer amount of coverage—of which I’m a participant—there has to be a bigger reason than gazing into the fishbowl. It has to be about: How do we think about mental health? What does it mean to take care of somebody? For me, it was also sort of a case study in examining the patriarchy, in terms of how Britney was treated when mental health [issues] started happening, which happens to so many people, as I’m sure you know.
Are there other pop culture figures like Britney who you think are overdue for a collective reexamination? For me, mostly, it’s people who are feeling powerless, and feeling like other people in their lives have been making decisions for them. I do want us to try and look more empathically at women who are in the limelight; it’s not always about, you know, how skinny they got after giving birth. A lot of those conversations are surrounding white women, so how do we extend the conversationWell, a majority of my films have been true crime, so I feel incredibly engaged with audiences.
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