Flipping wigs over Andy doc
ARE their 15 minutes of fame over? Ryan Murphy is creating a new Netflix doc on 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.
It was announced in 2019 that Murphy would produce a series on the pop art icon as part of his $300 million deal with Netflix. Usual suspects Bob Colacello, Chris Makos, Vincent Fremont, Cornelia Guest and Jane Holzer were apparently all interviewed.
But twin Warhol insiders Richard and Robert Dupont told us the show’s producers contacted them three months ago and offered an October interview. “Then we got a letter [canceling it] — and five other people I know who were scheduled,” Robert said.
In an e-mail 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 [more] interviews at this time.”
Joan Quinn, Warhol’s close friend and the former West Coast editor of his Interview magazine, 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,” Haskell said. “They obviously didn’t want to pay me. That’s what I charge.”
A rep for Netflix did not comment.