A documentary about Anna Nicole Smith will debut on Netflix subsequent month, and the streamer lastly launched a primary take a look at the movie on April 17. The revelatory feature-length documentary, titled “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me,” will function an “unflinching and humanizing examination of the life, demise, and secrets and techniques” of Smith, born Vickie Lynn Hogan, in response to the synopsis — from the Playboy mannequin and actuality TV star’s rise to stardom to her premature demise in 2007.
Per the trailer, the upcoming documentary options never-before-seen footage of Smith, house motion pictures, and interviews with key figures closest to her who have not spoken out concerning the mannequin — till now. It’ll additionally reveal “new insights into the story of the quintessential blonde bombshell hardly anybody actually knew.”
In January 2022, director Ursula Macfarlane teased what viewers can count on from the upcoming documentary in an interview with Variety. “I approached Anna Nicole’s story as an epic thriller story,” Macfarlane stated. “How did somebody with a lot charisma and jaw-dropping magnificence, with the world at her toes, fall up to now, so shortly? Now appears like the best time to re-examine the lifetime of one more lovely younger lady whose life has been picked over and in the end destroyed by our tradition.”
Smith rose to fame as a former Playmate and Guess mannequin within the ’90s, and he or she drew the general public’s consideration when she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994, when she was 26 years previous. She later grew to become a high-profile celeb whose life typically made headlines within the media — together with a public battle over her late husband’s property, paternity lawsuits, a drug habit, and her first kid’s demise. Smith starred on her personal actuality collection, “The Anna Nicole Show,” on E! from 2002 to 2003. According to Variety, she was discovered lifeless in a Florida lodge room on Feb. 8, 2007, from an unintended drug overdose. She was 39.
Read forward for every thing else we find out about Smith’s forthcoming documentary, together with when it hits Netflix.
Anna Nicole Smith Documentary Trailer
Anna Nicole Smith Documentary Release Date
“Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me” begins streaming on Netflix on May 16.