{"id":2284135,"date":"2026-02-16T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2284135"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:27:09","slug":"we-want-people-to-be-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/we-want-people-to-be-angry\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We want people to be angry&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Get ready to hit the catwalk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/02\/12\/celebrity-news\/antm-alum-lisa-damato-slams-tyra-banks-for-trying-to-save-face-with-money-grab-doc\/\"> Netflix doc <\/a>\u201cReality Check: Inside America\u2019s Next Top Model\u201d covers the behind the scenes chaos, and the complicated legacy of the iconic reality series \u2013 without Tyra Banks\u2019 input.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no creative control. Tyra is going to see the [documentary] exactly like all the 270 million households [that subscribe to Netflix],\u201d doc director Daniel Sivan told Page Six.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Banks, 52, appears onscreen in interviews, speaking out for the first time since \u201cTop Model\u201d ended in 2018.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tyra Banks reflects on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Next Top Model\u201d publically for the first time in the new Netflix doc \u201cReality Check.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tyra Banks had many infamous moments on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Next Top Model\u201d that she hasn\u2019t spoken about before.  <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Co-director Mor Loushy told Page Six that it \u201ctook time\u201d to get Banks onboard, estimating that she was in talks with the production for \u201cseveral months\u201d before agreeing to participate. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTyra decided that it\u2019s time for her to speak up,\u201d she said, adding that because it was the \u201cvery first time\u201d that Banks has spoken out, \u201cWe didn\u2019t know what to expect. We came, and she was very emotional. She wanted to tell her side of the story, like the contestants are telling their side of the story. But everybody was participating in the show as participants, and nothing more than that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s Next Top Model\u201d was a seminal reality series that premiered in 2003. Banks created and hosted the show. Along with Banks, exec producer Ken Mok appears in the doc, as well as the show\u2019s former judges, J. Alexander, Jay Manuel, Nigel Barker, and a slew of former contestants, such as Shandi Sullivan, Dani Evans, Whitney Thompson, and Ebony Haith, and Giselle Samson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The show <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/02\/12\/celebrity-news\/antm-alum-lisa-damato-slams-tyra-banks-for-trying-to-save-face-with-money-grab-doc\/\">had many controversies <\/a>and has since received criticism, for how Banks and the judges talked about the weight of contestants and appearances onscreen, and making the aspiring models participate in photoshoots where they pretended to be different races, or pretended to be murder victims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Silvan said that nobody was reluctant to participate or answer questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jay Manuel is one of the many former \u201cAmerica\u2019s Next Top Model\u201d figures to open up in the doc.  <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Tyra Banks took \u201cseveral months\u201d to agree to participate in the doc, directors said.  <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI think enough years have passed and enough reflection and self-reflection has been done\u2026 I think everybody came to tell their story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone who participated in the doc, such as former contestants, Banks, Mok, and the judges were, \u201cIn a place where they accepted the good and the bad that they did,\u201d he explained. \u201cI think that\u2019s commendable, people who are not shying from the ugliness, but are here to share it and show their process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also didn\u2019t get the impression that any of his interview subjects such as Banks came to do \u201cdamage control,\u201d or say, \u201cHow do I weasel myself out of it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The director said, \u201cPeople were here to say, \u2018hey, this is me, and this is what made me do these things.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Banks had a complicated legacy, as \u201cTop Model\u201d had many controversies.  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9CW Network\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Many past models share their story in \u201cReality Checked.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Both filmmakers said they want viewers to \u201cengage\u201d with the documentary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want people to be angry and also to love this [doc] and we want them to debate it with each other,\u201d said Sivan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want people to keep the discussion going,\u201d he told Page Six. \u201cI think if it will create a debate about body images today, about sexual harassment about boundaries, about when do you need to put down the camera and scream, \u2018cut!\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready to hit the catwalk.\u00a0 The new Netflix doc \u201cReality Check: Inside America\u2019s Next Top Model\u201d covers the behind the scenes chaos, and the complicated legacy of the iconic reality series \u2013 without Tyra Banks\u2019 input. \u201cThere was no creative control. 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