{"id":577620,"date":"2026-04-11T08:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577620\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:47:15","slug":"noah-kahan-talks-his-out-of-body-netflix-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577620\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Kahan Talks His Out of Body Netflix Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNoah Kahan<\/a> gets more personal in his new documentary than he was comfortable with at times.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the Netflix<\/a> documentary, directed by Nick Sweeney, the 29-year-old singer-songwriter opens up about his relationship with parents and his struggle with body dysmorphia, among other personal topics. He is earnest throughout the film, and jokes with The Hollywood Reporter that he\u2019d made peace with it all by pretending the doc would never come out.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Grammy-nominated musician is sitting on a porch, joining Sweeney on this Zoom to discuss the new documentary, Noah Kahan: Out of Body. Releasing on Netflix April 13, the 90-minute documentary follows Kahan after his assent to mainstream stardom thanks to his 2022 album, Stick Season.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen we first started making the film, we really had no idea what we would be capturing,\u201d Sweeney tells THR. \u201cI thought that if all we got was this extraordinary tour and Noah playing this hugely significant show at Fenway, what an amazing film that would be. As we got started, [I] I realized there\u2019s actually so much more going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat could\u2019ve been a straightforward tour documentary is instead an intimate look at Kahan\u2019s relationships with himself, his family and his beloved home of New England. \u201cAs Nick came along and started filming, a lot more came up to the surface, and we started to realize it was going to be something a little bit bigger than just a tour documentary,\u201d says Kahan. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tNoah Kahan and Gabe Simon at Gold Pacific Studios. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Mastercard<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe thing that really interests me is seeing people at crossroads in their life as they grapple with these big questions,\u201d Sweeney adds. \u201cAs soon as Noah and I started talking, it was so clear that he was dealing with these really significant questions in his life about who he was, where was his home and what was he going to do next after this gargantuan album.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKahan sprinkles in his work on the album that would become The Great Divide, releasing later this month, including a touching moment where the singer visits his childhood music<\/a> teacher and ends up writing a song in the space.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe also opens up about personal struggles. The singer shares that he\u2019s dealt with body dysmorphia and disordered eating. \u201c[I] always have felt physically ugly and facially ugly, mentally ugly,\u201d Kahan tells the camera crews in the documentary. \u201cI don\u2019t know what I look like. No clue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Vermont native\u2019s family is present throughout the film. One frequent praise for Kahan\u2019s work is how authentic his music feels. And Kahan\u2019s decision to share his family\u2019s personal business on Stick Season helped make the album relatable. But in the film, the singer says he feels bad he never asked his family for permission, recalling a text from his mother after he made a joke about his parent\u2019s divorce onstage. The text subtly let him know her feelings were hurt.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI felt so bad about how it made my mom, in particular, feel in that moment, but I think that was really important to talk about on camera because I\u2019m not sure if I would have had the courage to bring it up otherwise,\u201d says Kahan. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tNoah Kahan and his brother Richard in Noah Kahan: Out of Body.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n

\n\tThe singer says he was glad to hear what his mom felt in plain terms. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI feel like watching this documentary was a blessing because we got to see each other on camera. We got to confront these feelings. We couldn\u2019t all hide from them,\u201d Kahan says.<\/p>\n

\n\t \u201cWe had to watch this all happen, and it really just makes it feel smaller. It makes it feel more manageable, and it brought us so much closer together after watching the documentary,\u201d he continues. \u201cThat first week felt like we were all floating, especially stuff with my dad.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKahan\u2019s father and their relationship is a centerpiece of Out of Body. The singer, who shares that his father was in a life-changing accident when he was younger, says in the documentary that he wants to apologize to his father for \u201chow selfish and short tempered and judgmental\u201d he\u2019s been of him.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHim loving this documentary changed our relationship. It could have been so tricky,\u201d Kahan says. \u201cHe just loves me and wants me to be happy.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe singer says, deep down, he thinks the story of him and his father was the real of the documentary. \u201cI always cry when I talk about my dad. I don\u2019t know what it is,\u201d Kahan admits. \u201cHe wouldn\u2019t want me to. It\u2019s tricky, but I never felt like I didn\u2019t want to share it. It made me feel good to talk about.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is anchored by Kahan\u2019s sold-out Fenway Park performances and his love for home of Vermont and New Hampshire. Given Vermont\u2019s importance the singer and his music, Sweeney says he felt a healthy dose of pressure to portray the area authenticity. \u201cThe thing I really love is how honest people in Vermont are. They really are no bullshit,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe director notes that he and his small crew spent a large amount of time driving around Vermont. \u201cThe seasons are really interesting in this film. We see Noah over the course of this year, and the way that we were able to capture that was just by laying in wait,\u201d says Sweeney.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tKahan and Sweeney at the Out of Body premiere during the 2026 SXSW Conference & Festival. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGary Miller\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n

\n\tKahan, who grew up between Hanover, New Hampshire and Strafford, Vermont, admitting his relationship with Vermont was changing during the time of filming. \u201cI was scared that when I would come back that I\u2019d feel like a tourist or that I wouldn\u2019t belong or like that I\u2019d given away some secret,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n

\n\tOut of Body finishes with Kahan in the recording studio, after seemingly rediscovering his creative inspiration over the course of the year the documentary filmed. But beyond the music, Kahan and Sweeney hope the film inspires some personal change in its viewers lives. \u201cIt\u2019s not about a magical fairytale ending, it\u2019s just trying to understand the things that you\u2019re going through and name them and approach them,\u201d Sweeney says.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI hope that you make that phone call or you look in that mirror, and if you don\u2019t like what you see, ask why and see if there\u2019s something you could do to help change that thought of yourself,\u201d adds Kahan. \u201c[I hope you] ask those initial questions and approach those things that scare you.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noah Kahan gets more personal in his new documentary than he was comfortable with at times. In the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,216,217,208144],"class_list":["post-577620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-netflix","tag-noah-kahan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}