“The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man' draws on reams of interview transcripts rediscovered after Paul Newman's death. Here's how it came together.
Wachtel pitched it as a potential book, but a literary agent was hesitant. Still, the family friend kept digging through archives, hoping it could all be fodder for the documentary, until she made her second find: transcripts of Newman’s own conversations with Stern. “I was in a storage unit, and there were two boxes that had been put there by movers that said, ‘PN History,’” Wachtel recalled. “Nobody knew they still existed.
“It feels like it cuts to the point all the way through,” Gethers says. “There’s enough other material for more books, but I think this is definitive.“ One point the sisters pushed back on was the book’s tone. The editors “became entranced with the insecurity and doubt, because it was so different from what people know or imagine,” says Newman. “They really mined the dark stuff, but there was a lot of other material where he talked about process and making art.”
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