Posted on 9/25/124 by Colin Vassallo
Bill Simmons, who directed the Netflix docuseries Mr.
McMahon, labeled working on this project as the “strangest
documentary process” he’s ever been involved with.
Speaking on his own podcast with The Ringer’s David
Shoemaker, Simmons said that McMahon was always very late to
shooting and sometimes he didn’t even bother to show up at
all, and when he did, he came with an entourage of people to
keep everyone in check.
The two said that when they showed up to film, they would
get updates from McMahon’s secretary on his scheduled
arrival time and they would get pushed back hour by hour
until he showed up at 11 at night.
Shoemaker noted that they had enough footage of McMahon that
they could make this a 10-part docuseries, including when
Vince “sounded like a frog” because he was sick, all of
which ended up on the editing floor because he did not have
a voice.
“Chris Smith and the entire production team have done so
many documentaries of this sort, and of all sorts. They’ve
been working in this world forever. This is the guy that did
The Tiger King, and none of them had ever experienced a
working situation like we encountered in Stamford,
Connecticut,” Shoemaker said.