Are their fifteen minutes of fame finally up?
Megaproducer Ryan Murphy is creating a new Netflix documentary about pop art king Andy Warhol, and some of the artist’s acolytes fear they won’t get enough airtime — or be featured at all.
“Everyone has an Andy Warhol story to tell, but unfortunately production is completed and people are upset they can’t tell their story,” a former Warhol pal told Page Six.
But, “I’ve already done two Warhol films, so I’m not upset about it,” the source added.
It was announced in 2019 that Murphy would be producing a series on Warhol as part of his new $300 million deal he inked with Netflix. Usual Warhol suspects Bob Colacello, Chris Makos, Vincent Fremont, Cornelia Guest and Jane Holzer were apparently all interviewed for the project, but even they may end up on the cutting room floor.
“You can be interviewed for the documentary for six hours and get cut, or maybe appear for one minute,” huffed an insider.
Infamous twin Warhol insiders Richard and Robert DuPont told us the producers contacted them three months ago, and, Robert said, “one of the producers said she would contact us in October to do it, then we got a letter [canceling it] — and five other people I know who were scheduled.”
(L-R) Richard Dupont, Nikki Haskell and Robert Dupont all have stories to share about the iconic Andy Warhol.Patrick McMullan via Getty ImageRichard added, “There are only two people in there I know who were interviewed: Marc Balet and R. Couri Hay,” he said.
In an email obtained by Page Six, a producer of the series informed potential interviewees, “there’s been an outpouring of support for Andy and many reached out to us to participate in the program.” But, “Given our production deadlines, budget and COVID protocols, we have already completed principal photography of the series… we’re not able to schedule any additional interviews at this time.”
Joan Quinn, Warhol’s close friend and West Coast editor of Interview Magazine for a decade, said she wasn’t even asked. “I have a lot of good stories [that] the producers are missing out on… Andy would have wanted me to be in the doc, so I could say what good taste he had in jewelry,” she said.
Studio 54 party girl Nikki Haskell, who appears in Warhol’s party book and diaries, told us that the production reached out to her for footage of Warhol at Studio 54, but the conversation ended when she quoted them “$5,000 per minute.”
“They obviously didn’t want to pay me. That’s what I charge,” Haskell said.
Meanwhile, Viva Hoffmann, who was close to Warhol and appeared on the first cover of Interview, isn’t losing any sleep over Murphy’s doc.
“I didn’t know they were doing a Netflix documentary. I loved Andy, but I always pray and hope that no one ever mentions me again for the rest of my life in reference to any Warhol movie,” she said.
Besides, “No one’s doing anything now who even knew Andy because we’re all so old now, or dead,” she added.
A rep for Netflix did not comment.
