Director Lauren Greenfield talks about her new documentary 'The Kingmaker,' about Imelda Marcos, the controversial former first lady of the Philippines.
Lauren Greenfield had traveled over 7,000 miles — from Venice Beach to the Philippines — before she realized that the subject of her documentary was an unreliable narrator. The filmmaker was in Southeast Asia to interview Imelda Marcos, who’d been the first lady of the archipelagic country for 21 years.
“I found out that a lot of things she said were not true or did not align with historical accounts or first-person testimonials,” Greenfield said, reflecting on the interview. “So I kind of let her tell her story. She’s one of those people that is so strong that you just have to catch what comes to you. There’s no guiding or — ‘Can we talk about this?’ She gives you what she wants to give you. She’s in control.”as the documentary would go on to be called, is not without context.
As a teenager, Greenfield attended the private Crossroads School in Santa Monica, where many of her classmates had famous Hollywood parents. Greenfield, meanwhile, was the daughter of professors who were more interested in joining local communes than buying their child the trendiest clothes. Greenfield believes beauty and money “have a moral purpose” for Marcos. In the film, the politician says she views herself as a “star in the dark of night” for the poor — meaning she dresses extravagantly and pushed her husband to build elaborate palaces so the impoverished could have beauty in their lives too.
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