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Sean Combs’ sanction whitethorn travel up astatine nan Primetime Emmys this year, though not successful nan mode he’d like. Almost 20 years aft his information arsenic portion of nan producing squad on A Raisin successful nan Sun, a documentary bid pinch his sanction successful nan title – Sean Combs: The Reckoning — is successful contention for television’s highest honor.
The Netflix bid directed by Alexandria Stapleton shines a harsh glare onto nan intersexual misconduct allegations that took Combs from nan apical of nan euphony business to nan interior of a situation cell. The four-parter includes in-depth interviews pinch group adjacent to Combs, from puerility friends to business associates, arsenic good arsenic Joi Dickerson-Neal, who accused nan rapper-actor-mogul of drugging and raping her successful nan 1990s.
Stapleton joins nan latest version of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to talk her series, revealing really she obtained singular footage of Combs recorded conscionable weeks earlier he was indicted connected national activity trafficking and racketeering charges. It shows him successful a edifice room successful speech pinch his lawyer strategizing connected really to counteract nan antagonistic communicative astir Combs that was overtaking nationalist discourse.
Stapleton besides shares nan wrong communicative of collaborating connected nan bid pinch Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, nan longtime “P. Diddy” nemesis who serves arsenic executive shaper of Sean Combs: The Reckoning. And nan filmmaker explores really she took The Reckoning beyond what she describes arsenic bequest media’s two-dimensional portrayals of nan Combs ungraded that were slathered “in babe oil.”
Combs is expected to beryllium released from national situation successful astir 2 years’ time, aft he concludes his condemnation for a condemnation connected prostitution-related counts (a assemblage acquitted him of much superior charges). Stapleton tells america what she thinks will go of Combs erstwhile he gets retired of prison.
That’s connected nan caller section of Doc Talk hosted by John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Shirley) and Matt Carey, Deadline’s elder documentary editor. The pod is simply a accumulation of Deadline and Ridley’s Nō Studios.
Listen to nan section supra aliases connected awesome podcast platforms including Spotify, iHeart and Apple.s here
