A new two-part documentary about actor Evan Rachel Wood and her decision to publicly accuse Marilyn Manson of abuse is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival later this month.
It will then air on HBO in the spring.Titled ‘Phoenix Rising’, director Amy Berg says that the film was originally about Wood’s emergence as an activist working to improve legal protections for survivors of domestic abuse.
Previously, Wood had said that she had been a victim herself, but had never named her abuser.This changed after Manson released his last album, and people online started more prolifically linking him, as an ex-partner of Wood, to those earlier allegations.
Wood then confirmed that those allegations were indeed against the musicianin February last year.“It wasn’t [originally] about Marilyn Manson and his whole world”, Berg tells Variety of the documentary. “This was about an Erin Brockovich story.
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