Everything I do is seen through my eyes, for good, bad or indifferent.”īut in late August, some things were seen through his eyes but ultimately didn’t make the cut in the final episode: interviews he had with members of the conspiracy group Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, who notoriously perpetuate the idea that jet fuel doesn’t melt steel. “I’m a New York storyteller,” he says with pride, pointing out that his art shows the truth as he knows it. The docu-series is Lee’s testimonial to the greatest city in the world. (He doesn’t like to use the word “anniversary.”) The work is a tribute to the city’s resilience and its ability to bounce back in the aftermath of tragedy, whether by terrorism or the coronavirus pandemic. 11, the 20-year remembrance of the World Trade Center attacks. The finale of Lee’s new four-part documentary series for HBO, “ NYC Epicenters: 9/11 – 2021 1⁄2,” will air on Sept. They needed extras for the final scene and I was there.” Lee appears in the Dino de Laurentiis-produced 1976 film as one of the 5,000 extras who see Kong fall to the ground from the towers.ĭecades later, the director would shoot a documentary with his own vivid memories of the fateful day in 2001 when a terrorist attack brought down the twin towers, killing thousands. “They were shooting ‘King Kong,’ and there was an ad in the Daily News. Dressed in a red FDNY shirt and matching cap, Spike Lee recalls over Zoom his earliest memory of the World Trade Center: “My first thing was the bombing in 1993.” After a beat, he goes back further.
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