Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ Has a Unique Perspective on Daddy Issues
Source: Wired ·
Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, agreed to be interviewed immediately.
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Only one person agreed to be Alex Gibney’s new Elon Musk documentary immediately: Musk’s father. “We had Errol Musk at ‘hello,’” Gibney says. Eventually, the director would speak with scores of Musk’s associates for his film. His first wife, Justine Musk, appears, as does his ex-girlfriend Ashley St. Claire. Journalist Kara Swisher, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, myself, and WIRED global editorial director Katie Drummond also spoke to Gibney for Musk , which hits theaters nationwide on Friday. But landing Errol Musk, with whom the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has a complicated relationship, was a watershed. “Everybody else took a lot of persuasion,” Gibney says. “It was very difficult to get people to appear because the risk profile for talking about Musk in a way that was honest was high.” Once Gibney interviewed all of his subjects, he had enough material to make a documentary that runs nearly four hours, including a 10-minute intermission. It’s a damning portrait of the trillionaire…