Mr. T SLAMS New Netflix Documentary About His Life As ‘Garbage’: ‘It Pissed Me Off’

Mr. T Slams new Netflix documentary about his life as garbage. It pissed [laughter] me off. This documentary came out uh today or last week or it's recent on Netflix. Um going all the way back to Rocky 3 with Clubber Lang man, Mr. T. And uh I I gotta give it to you, man. Um, I've seen like, okay, you know, everybody's heard of Mr. T before. >> Uh, he has all of these chains on his neck and I don't know if you saw a old interview where he had some um some interesting particular shoes on and a uh reporter or journalist tried to clown him on live TV about his shoes and he like he was so professional and articulate about why he wears those shoes. It just he said it reminds him of where it comes from. I wish I had the clip. Uh I I just have so much respect for him as far as that's concerned. But um I haven't heard from Mr. T in a while, but apparently Larry, he has a new documentary right now on Netflix and uh he's not too thrilled about it. Uh this is coming from uh Page 6 News and they're giving me a thousand ads. Uh Mr. T Slams new Netflix documentary about his life as garbage. It pissed me off. And so Mr. T. Damn, these ads. Uh, this is crazy. This is insane. Mr. T let loose on Netflix documentary about his life, calling it garbage and claiming they missed a mark when chronicling his rise to fame and retreat from the public eye. The documentary pissed me off because they didn't cover a lot of stuff. The former pro wrestler told the Guardian in an unfiltered comments about Unfold Mr. T, I ped the fool streaming on September the 8th. So, it came out two days ago. When I saw it, I was like, "What the heck? It's garbage." He asked it. "You build me up, then you try to punk me out." Mr. T, who was born Lawrence Terra before illegally changing his name, recall saying, "Wow, man. I'm more than that." Two days they interviewed my pastor, and he gets 30 seconds on screen, he said in the documentary. Uh, Mr. T pictured above slam Netflix documentary about his life. Um, man, that's what the Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, the documentary didn't cover a lot of stuff Mr. T Mr. T seen here in the claim outlet. That's what we call the black community. A white man wanting to change the story and control the narrative. Uh, the actor continued, "If you don't know me, you're going to think I'm a some monster. That's unfortunate." The A Team alum 74 also took exception from the documentary, excluding unflattering comments by former agent Peter Young about his 1993 movie Freaked while allegedly leaving out his positive attributes. Mr. He claimed he asked director Scott Winthrob to see footage of the documentary which the outlet claims suggest his descent from fame was fueled by poor decisions and bad behavior but was denied. We started filming last year at Easter. I didn't see the finished project until a month ago. Damn. M claimed I didn't see nothing on film. Now I see it. I said god damn. Ain't this something? We told him don't put Peter on my dock but he did. The former celebrity bodyguard said when he saw the film, he said to himself, "Lord, don't let me go off. Don't let me go off because I wanted to go off on Netflix." That looks like AI right there or something like that. That don't even look real. Um, if you look >> That was real Getty Images. >> Okay. Um, I'm not going to read anymore, but Larry, if you look on Netflix, bro, the documentary is only 48 minutes. >> Is that it? >> Yes. I I looked at it a couple of hours ago. I was like 48. You can't even get his brother an hour. >> Like what? What? And and [laughter] it's not like he knew of becoming the man has been around for decades. >> Yeah. >> I mean, he is an icon, so to speak, and you only give him 48 minutes. >> Yeah. >> Even it that's just that's that's ridiculous, bro. Um, is this something that you want to check out? Uh, what are your thoughts on this? Because this is this is this is silly in my my opinion. You know, >> I didn't know that this documentary was made until you sent this over and as soon as you said I was like, "All right, let me go add it to my list of stuff to watch. I'm probably going to watch it tonight." I grew up as a huge Mr. T fan, man. I love that dude. I I mean, I used to watch Mr. This is before Mr. T was Clever Lane. Before Mr. T was was ba Barackus, they they used to have this thing. I think it was on I think it was like on uh world wide world of sports or something. They used to have these bouncer competitions where you would like have to bust through a door, grab somebody, throw them out. It was crazy. But he used to be on these bouncer competitions on TV that they would do and it was so fascinating. He was so entertaining and fun to watch and and uh you know but it was it was great because like my dad who did my dad grew very conservative did not like all the sort of Tom Foolery with the gold chains and all stuff but he I think he still liked him because he was he was very masculine he was very pro black. He was not one of these dudes that was like taking a bunch of stuff from people. It was fan. He was fantastic. Anyways, the on the other side of this is anytime you sign your life rights away to somebody and allow them to tell your story, they are inevitably going to f it up because they did not live your life. They are they are seeing things through what is going to be an interesting narrative on the screen, not necessarily what is important to you and what was important to your life. And so I mean as somebody who has shot a number of documentaries, I understand that sometimes you shoot stuff thinking that it's going to be important to the story and ultimately it just isn't. It just it like the story takes a shift and that footage is no good. So, he may have spent two days interviewing his pastor and then he just it just doesn't make the cut. I mean, I shot a documentary of a boxer and interviewed her mom for a whole day and she wasn't happy she didn't make the cut. It just sometimes it's just nothing is said that really works and not but I I I'm it's unfortunate that he's not happy about it because anytime someone says okay go ahead make a documentary about me you would hope that the end product would make them happy and say okay yeah you did a good job you did a nice job telling my story and and it feels like that is not what happened here but also it feels like they may have rushed this thing because if You look at the timeline of people who are shooting documentaries on people to start last Easter and to put it out now means they finished principal photography in a few months and the rest of it was just in the edit and then they have it and they've gone through the other parts to get it out. It was a very fast production for a documentary that and and you know so it doesn't surprise me that's only 48 minutes because I mean honestly that documentary just for someone like Mr. who's been around for decades. It probably should have taken a few years to shoot that. But >> yeah, actually, and I do want to add more because I think this is important. He added, and I thought, uh, if I go off in here, it's not going to be pretty. I said, "Take the high road." So, I took the high road. Still, uh, still, when asked about an allegation in the film that he only attend events in white limousines, um, was sent for him, he questioned, "What's wrong with white limousines?" and asked the outlet if he shouldn't have a choice of color. That makes me a bad guy. Let's get real here. He ranted. I wear a white t-shirt sometime. Does that make me a bad person? I wear white socks. So, what's the beef about? Excuse me. Mr. T stated, "When Elvis Presley died, he had a white limousine, so why can't I have one while I'm living? But Mr. T is a bad guy." He went on, "We don't care about him feeding the homeless, but you know, he wanted a white limousine. He wanted a certain kind of soap in his hotel room. Wow, he's a bad guy. According to the outlet, his former agent Young responded to a request for comment saying, "Please give Mr. T my best and let him know I forgive him." Um, and there's one more comment. The Rocky uh that's not what I was Oh, yeah. Reps for Netflix and Wthob did not immediately respond to page six request for a comment. Uh despite his apparent frustration with the documentary, which Netflix allegedly told the Guardian, he approved of prior to the interview. Uh the Rocky 3 actor said he's done everything he ever wanted to do in his life. All I wanted to do was buy my mother a beautiful house and pretty dresses. He said elsewhere in the interview. I've done that in the 80s. So the game was over. It was done. I was already walking away when they called me for uh the A team. I was at the rap party for Rocky 3. He added in part, "My mother told me, son, there are some things that money just can't buy. Like the poem says, if you can walk with kings and queens and not lose your common touch, then you will be a man, my son. How many people have sold their soul to the devil chasing money? I'm not chasing the dollar. I never did." Untold, Mr. T, I appear at the food streams September the 8th on Netflix. Uh this is something that I'mma check out uh maybe this weekend only because it's 48 minutes. Um but hopefully it's not as bad as um as uh he says. So yeah, is not happy. >> You know, it's one of those things too when you're making like it's not unusual, I don't think, for for the subject of a documentary to not see the documentary beforehand. >> Yeah. I mean, it's it's fairly normal that people shoot stuff, they they they edit it, and there may be like a private screening or something once the film is finished, but it's not unusual, I think, for when someone's making a documentary to not show people, you know, clips along the way. And >> so I mean I understand that he's made a number of movies in Hollywood and in Hollywood people shoot stuff and they see dailies and sometimes they bring actors in to say hey we want you to check this out or they show them parts of the performance say we need you to do some ADR whatever they see stuff before the product is finished and it's I it's just I've never known it to really work that way with documentaries. So maybe he was expecting something different and and when it didn't turn out that way, he was feeling upset about it, just not being super familiar with the process. I don't know how many documentaries he's taken a part of, so I I I don't know. I don't know what kind of agreements they had either, but I'm looking forward to seeing it. I liked him growing up. I mean, it was I always found it interesting how he could be, you know, this big buff dude that had this growly voice that could be intimidating. And the moment a little kid walked up, he became this sort of soft, gentle giant that just really loved children and embraced them and made sure that they weren't afraid around him and they could in instant go back to being that sort of character. He was, you know, I didn't always as a younger person didn't always appreciate how amazing that is that someone's able to do that because some people feel like they have to stay in character to be a character, you know. >> Right on. Right on. Well guys, y'all let us know what y'all think about that in the comments section. Let us know if you will be checking out the documentary on Netflix and let us know if you are a fan of Mr. T. We would really appreciate it.