Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin and filmmaker Alison Ellwood break down how a new Showtime doc on the Go-Go’s finally gives the band the last word
but, at twice the running time, it humanizes them in ways the VH1 show never attempted. It dedicates time to each of the five women’s childhoods, their punk-rock roots, their love lives , their do-it-yourself handiness, and their family-like bond before showing them as superstarsIt’s not a perfect portrait — the film skips over two decades of reunion years — but it succeeds in showing the group’s importance.
“I was OK with it when [photographer Annie Liebovitz] suggested it, because it was men’s underwear,” Wiedlin says. “Most of it was Hanes, and it wasn’t particularly sexy. I thought it was more lighthearted and fun. it was a striking image.“In retrospect, it was a great visual,” Carlisle says, “but we were all kind of disappointed, because we’re not those people at all.
In addition to showing the group’s successes, the film also explains why the group fell apart with more detail. Around the making of theirLP, Schock saw how much the band members who wrote the songs made compared to her and tried to get Carlisle, who also didn’t write songs, to join her in confronting them about what she saw as an inequity. “I felt like I had no right to say anything because I was such a fuck-up,” Carlisle says in the film.
When her bandmates saw that scene at Sundance, their jaws hit the floor. “Everybody was horrified, as to, ‘Did I say that?’ ‘Did“After they approached me, we talked about it, and it was a very emotional conversation,” Wiedlin says. “I’m not gonna say who said it, because that would be just mean. Who cares? It’s“I think there’s been some healing that has happened as a result of the film,” Ellwood says. “When we were at Sundance, it was the first time they saw it with an audience.
Despite the bad blood in the past, the director says that when the five women got together to record a new song, “Club Zero,” for the final scene of the film, their chemistry was amazing. “They just fall back into their old routine,” she says. “They are five of the funniest, smartest women I’ve ever met, and they are just hysterical together.”
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