After revealing a few of her most intimate struggles in her HBO documentary, Faye Dunaway feels a weight lifted.
The Academy Award winner stated she “dug deep” to debate her experiences with bipolar dysfunction and alcoholism in Faye, the Laurent Bouzereau-helmed portrait of her life and profession that premiered final month on HBO and Max.
“Cathartic is an effective phrase. It was,” Dunaway advised The Independent. “To have a look at all of it and see what it added as much as. It was troublesome typically, as a result of it is extremely personal to me. I used to be a bit cautious at seeing all of it on the market, however that’s the method — it’s the entire level of the movie, the sharing of who I’m. I dug deep!”
The documentary explores how Dunaway’s bipolar dysfunction contributed to her popularity as a troublesome actress, in addition to how the situation influenced her craft.
“The mania we faucet into, and the unhappiness, after all… I don’t know the way all that works precisely however I perceive that I would like all of that to make use of in my craft,” she stated. “It has been an issue, after all, as an individual typically. It’s one thing I’ve needed to cope with and overcome and perceive. It’s one thing that’s a part of who I’m, and that now I can perceive and cope with far more.”
Faye Dunaway in ‘Faye’
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Faye made its world premiere at Cannes Movie Competition again in Might, after Bouzereau and Dunaway’s son Liam O’Neill satisfied the star to inform her story.
“We needed to inform a narrative that wasn’t a fluff piece, that wasn’t simply all the good things. It needed to embody the whole lot,” stated O’Neill. “My mother agreed as a result of until we discuss the whole lot, it’s not the true story.”
