![]() Not a lot of folks wanted to open up initially…I had a list of folks that I wanted to talk to-family members, managers, agents, costars, the ones that seemed to have the closest relationship with her. There are also enough bizarre, dark twists about Monjack to fill several episodes of Dateline-and those were only the revelations that made it on camera.ĭuring this phase of getting to know her, who were some of the first people who knew Brittany that were willing to open up to you? ![]() The film features candid interviews with Clueless director Amy Heckerling and Murphy’s King of the Hill costar and friend Kathy Najimy never-before-seen video of Brittany as a child actor with a megawatt smile and personality and heartbreaking footage of Murphy, so drug-addled that she cannot remember her lines, on the set of one of her final movies, Across the Hall. The filmmaker also traces Murphy’s emotional journey-as a woman who suffered a string of professional and personal heartbreaks that left her vulnerable to Monjack, a manipulator whose own mother describes him on camera as being “economical with the truth.” But the project, from Emmy-winning director Cynthia Hill, focuses equally on Murphy’s life and career, remembering the ebullient actor who first charmed audiences in Clueless and earned accolades for her performances in Girl, Interrupted and 8 Mile. These are some of the questions addressed in HBO Max’s fascinating two-part documentary What Happened, Brittany Murphy?, which premieres Thursday. ![]() Was she poisoned? Was her slick-haired screenwriter husband Simon Monjack involved? And how do you explain Monjack’s own death five months later, which was eerily attributed to similar causes of Murphy’s passing: pneumonia and severe anemia? Twelve years ago this December, the actor Brittany Murphy died under circumstances mysterious enough that lingering questions about her death still overshadow her career. ![]()
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