“My mother will probably say, ‘Why did you put that in?’” says Alexandra, whose HBO documentary “Pelosi in the House” nevertheless paints a flattering picture.
But for all their closeness, despite what Alexandra describes as their “glorious, beautiful relationship as mother and daughter,” the filmmaker failed to brief her mom on one little detail: that she was, uh, making this movie about her. “Pelosi in the House” premieres Tuesday on HBO.
In addition to the Jan. 6 footage, Alexandra Pelosi also shows her mom in bed, in a bathrobe, makeup-less with a bandage stretched across her nose. It shows her doing math to tally the probable votes of members on the Affordable Care Act bill. It shows her dancing in socks, with a grandbaby on her hip. At one point, Nancy Pelosi stands in her office, applying mascara in front of a gilded mirror. She sanitizes her hands and turns to a staffer with a request.
Alexandra Pelosi’s documentary portrays the speaker as a disciplined political tactician but also as a mother and grandmother who is caring for her family even as she leads a house of Congress. The film, described by the San Francisco Chronicle as a “one-of-a-kind document of one of the most important women in American history,” makes the argument that Nancy’s political career wasn’t the result of a decision so much as a destiny.
“My sisters will probably say, ‘Why did you put that in?’ My mother will probably say, ‘Why did you put that in?’” She is half-hoping her mother never gets around to watching the movie though suspects she will eventually, and “I don’t look forward to her critique of it,” she told The Post. She expects Nancy will be especially sensitive to scenes that involve other Democratic members of Congress.
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