Lorne<\/a>\u00a0aims to change that, although its director, Morgan Neville, tells ABC Audio Michaels didn\u2019t make it easy.<\/p>\n\u201cI mean, the first day of shooting is literally what you see in the documentary, which is the cameras come out of the bags and Lorne vanishes,\u201d Neville says. \u201cSlowly, we got closer and closer. It was like making a nature documentary, and he kind of became a little more used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
But while Michaels didn\u2019t like talking about himself, plenty of people had no problem talking about him, with\u00a0Michaels’ famous friends\u00a0and colleagues, like Paul Simon, Steve Martin, Tina Fey, John Mulaney, Adam Sandler and more, contributing to the film.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople do love to talk about Lorne, because for all of them, he looms large in their own stories,\u201d says Neville. \u201cYou know, for a lot of them, he’s the reason they became famous or successful.\u201d<\/p>\n
The film also takes viewers inside the making of SNL, with cameras filming parts of the process most regular folks never get to witness.<\/p>\n
Neville says the SNL footage was important because the film\u2019s \u201cnot just Lorne\u2019s backstory, but the dynamics he’s created and really the culture,\u201d noting he wanted to capture that “while it still exists.”<\/p>\n
And while moviegoers will indeed learn a lot about Michaels, they may still come away thinking he\u2019s a bit of a mystery, and Neville’s\u00a0OK with that.<\/p>\n
“You know, Lorne is the Wizard of Oz, and on the one hand you want to learn about the Wizard of Oz,” he says, “but you also don’t want to demystify him to the point where he’s not the wizard anymore.”<\/p>\n
Lorne opens in theaters Friday.<\/p>\n
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