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<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="9403" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tiger">Tiger</keyword>" director <keyword id="10558920" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="matthew-hamachek">Matthew Hamachek</keyword> told Insider that the biggest surprise in making the movie about the golfing legend was how loyal people are to <keyword id="20491" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tiger-Woods">Tiger Woods</keyword> — even the ones he has scorned.</li><li>That includes his former mistress, <keyword id="78353" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Rachel-Uchitel">Rachel Uchitel</keyword>, and his fired caddie Steve Williams, who both took months to decide to participate in the documentary.</li><li>"Even the people who were scorned by Tiger [or] had a bone to pick with him, they are fiercely protective of him," he told Insider.</li><li>"Tiger" is now available on <keyword id="71946" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="HBO">HBO</keyword> Max.</li></ul>Over the two-plus years working on the <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-tiger-woods-spends-his-money-2017-5">Tiger Woods</a> two-part documentary, "Tiger," directors Matthew Hamachek and Matthew Heineman spent most of their time trying to gain the trust of Woods' inner circle.Though they succeeded in landing fantastic interviews with those who knew the golfing legend best - for others, including his ex-mistress Rachel Uchitel, his <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-caddy-pull-over-highway-practice-swing-2021-1">former caddie Steve Williams,</a> and his first love, Dina Parr - it wasn't that easy.Still, when the duo did eventually land the essential interviews, which show a more intimate side of the golfer, Hamachek said he was shocked by what they told him or moreso what they didn't tell him.Read more: <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-hbo-documentary-interview-2021-1">HBO's explosive Tiger Woods documentary features interviews from people who know the golfing legend best including his former mistress- Here's how the directors got them to talk</a>"Even the people who were scorned by Tiger [or] had a bone to pick with him, they are fiercely protective of him," <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-hbo-documentary-interview-2021-1">he told Insider</a>.Hamachek said he met with Uchitel before production started and eventually she was the first interview they filmed for the movie. Still, it took months for her to finally agree despite the fact that her affair with Woods, while he was married to Elin Nordegren, caused her life <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-tiger-documentary-got-rachel-uchitel-interview-2021-1">to be "a living hell"</a> for the last 10 years.<div type="image" title="tiger hbo" height="675" width="900" msid="80321852" hostid="261"></div>Getting Williams also took months to land though he and Woods had a falling out. As we see in part two of the documentary, Williams is fired after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiger-woods-injured-navy-seal-2012-3">Woods gets injured</a> and Williams decides to work for another PGA Tour player, Adam Scott. However, in the movie he still says he "admires" Woods.Perhaps the hardest interview to land was Parr. In part one of the documentary, Woods sends her a handwritten breakup letter to her out-of-the blue.Hamachek said it was so difficult to convince Parr to appear in the documentary that he and a producer had to wait outside her home one day to finally talk with her about why she should be involved.Read more: <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-tiger-documentary-got-rachel-uchitel-interview-2021-1">The director of HBO's Tiger Woods doc revealed that the golfer's former mistress Rachel Uchitel appeared in the movie because she felt the media had 'turned her into a caricature'</a>The director told Insider that he's happy all three participated in his project as they all reveal fascinating insights on Woods.And although he doesn't believe any of them contacted Woods to get his approval to be in the movie, Hamachek did find it interesting how much they still care for the golfing legend."That was the most surprising thing," Hamachek said, "the loyalty and caring they still have to this day for him despite breakups or being fired.""Tiger" is available now on HBO Max.

The director of Tiger Woods' documentary is shocked by how loyal his former mistress and caddie still are to the golfing legend

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="10558920" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="matthew-hamachek">Matthew Hamachek</keyword>, the codirector of the <keyword id="71946" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="HBO">HBO</keyword> documentary, "<keyword id="9403" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tiger">Tiger</keyword>," told Insider how he was able to get <keyword id="20491" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tiger-Woods">Tiger Woods</keyword>' former mistress, <keyword id="78353" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Rachel-Uchitel">Rachel Uchitel</keyword>, in the movie.</li><li>He said that conversations happened months before production began, leading to a close to eight-hour interview with her for the documentary. It was the first interview they conducted for the movie.</li><li>"Rachel felt strongly that nobody had ever told her side of the story; that the media had taken her and turned her into a caricature," Uchitel said.</li><li>"I wanted to tell my story on HBO because I wanted people to see what really happened," Uchitel told "Extra" before part one of "Tiger" aired on Sunday.</li><li>"I was not a mistress, and I was in a real relationship," she added, "and I want people to leave me alone about it."</li></ul>At the conclusion of part one of the <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-hbo-documentary-interview-2021-1">Tiger Woods HBO documentary, "Tiger,"</a> we watch as Woods wins the 2006 Open Championship, marking the first major win for Woods after the death of his father Earl.Emotion overtakes Woods as he cries in the arms of his caddie Steve Williams and then his wife, Elin Nordegren. It has all the makings of a storybook ending for an athlete, who became everything his father wanted him to be: an <a href="https://www.insider.com/hbo-tiger-woods-documentary-banquet-footage-2021-1">inspiration that transcends sports</a>. At least in the public eye.But as Woods and Nordegren embrace, the picture cuts to a shot with a grey background and a woman entering the frame sitting down in a chair.It's Rachel Uchitel, Woods' former mistress."OK, so what do you want me to talk about?" she asks the camera as part one of "Tiger" ends.It sets the stage for an explosive part two of the documentary in which all of Woods' demons are detailed, destroying his then pristine public image.To land Uchitel's first-ever in-depth interview took a lot of conversations between her and the filmmakers before production began, "Tiger" codirector Matthew Hamachek told Insider, noting that it all came down to trust."We met with her for lunch, and Rachel felt strongly that nobody had ever told her side of the story; that the media had taken her and turned her into a caricature," said Hamachek, who codirected the movie with Matthew Heineman ("Cartel Land").<div type="image" title="Rachel Uchitel" height="1000" width="1333" msid="80207084" hostid="261"></div>Over Thanksgiving weekend in 2009, the world was shocked when news broke that Woods was in a car accident just outside his Florida mansion. The world was even more shocked when they realized the accident was caused after Nordegren had chased the golfer out of their home after she discovered his infidelity.Soon after, a slew of women went public about their affairs with Woods over the years, but Uchitel, a New York City night club manager, stood out as the tabloids reported that she was the one who broke up Woods' marriage."What she really wanted was to make sure she had a platform to tell her side," Hamachek said about the discussions he had with Uchitel..A couple of months of back-and-forth discussions led to her doing a close to eight-hour interview for "Tiger," the first one done for the documentary."It was a marathon," Hamachek said. "We talked about everything. She really does tell her entire story of meeting Tiger up through what happened the night that their relationship came to an end."<div type="image" title="tiger woods elin 2006" height="1334" width="1778" msid="80207086" hostid="261"></div>In an interview on <a href="https://extratv.com/2021/01/07/rachel-uchitel-s-emotional-interview-about-the-aftermath-of-the-tiger-woods-scandal/">"Extra"</a> before part one of the documentary aired Sunday, Uchitel said the last decade had been "a living hell" for her."I wanted to tell my story on HBO because I wanted people to see what really happened," she said. "I was not a mistress, and I was in a real relationship, and I want people to leave me alone about it.""I made a bad decision. And I regret it, and I'm embarrassed about it and," Uchitel continued, "my apology is to two people, not the world, two people."The majority of part two of "Tiger" is dedicated to Uchitel and Woods' relationship, as well as other things that led to his fall from grace, including injuries, his divorce from Nordegren, and a dependency to drugs and alcohol that led to a 2017 arrest for driving under the influence.Hamachek said he felt it was important to have Uchitel in the movie because it gives an added layer to Woods' story."What I really wanted to do was paint a portrait of his life from the people who knew him best and hopefully to bring a bit of empathy to his story," he said. "That's what the people who talked to us helped us do."The codirector added that there were plenty of sordid details that he left on the cutting room floor since his intention from the start was to paint a complete yet complex picture of Woods, not simply focus on his transgressions. "There were tons of salacious details we could have gotten into," Hamachek continued, "but we wanted to get to the heart of who this guy is and why all this happened to him."Part one of "Tiger" is available now on HBO Max, while part two airs on HBO and HBO Max on January 17.

The director of HBO's Tiger Woods doc revealed that the golfer's former mistress Rachel Uchitel appeared in the movie because she felt the media had 'turned her into a caricature'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Part 1 of the two-part <keyword id="20491" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tiger-Woods">Tiger Woods</keyword> <keyword id="71946" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="HBO">HBO</keyword> documentary, "<keyword id="9403" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tiger">Tiger</keyword>," opens with the golfer's father, Earl Woods, getting emotional while speaking about his son at a 1996 banquet.</li><li>He says during his speech that Tiger "will transcend this game and bring to the world a humanitarianism which has never been known before."</li><li>"Tiger" codirector <keyword id="10558920" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="matthew-hamachek">Matthew Hamachek</keyword> told Insider that the footage is the "most important" in the doc because it highlights the complex father-son relationship Tiger and Earl had.</li><li>He told Insider it took months to secure the never-before-seen footage.</li></ul>The start of <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-hbo-documentary-interview-2021-1">HBO's two-part Tiger Wood documentary, "Tiger,"</a> opens with a powerful moment that sets the tone for one of the major themes in the movie: the immense expectations Woods' father, Earl, had for his son.The footage is from the Haskins Collegiate Award Banquet in 1996, which honors the most outstanding collegiate golfer in the US. In the never-before-seen grainy video, we see Earl at the podium speaking to a room full of people."Please forgive me," Earl says, "but sometimes I get very emotional when I talk about my son.""My heart fills with so much joy when I realize that this young man is going to help so many people," Earl continues as we see footage of <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-net-worth-successful-golfer-makes-spends-millions-2019-6">Tiger draining a putt</a> as a <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-caddy-pull-over-highway-practice-swing-2021-1">PGA pro</a> as the crowd roars."He will transcend this game and bring to the world a humanitarianism which has never been known before," says Earl as Tiger sits listening at the banquet."The world will be be a better place to live in by virtue of his existence and his presence. This is my treasure," Earl says as he chokes back tears. "Please accept it and use it wisely."<div type="image" title="tiger banquet hbo" height="683" width="1366" msid="80206394" hostid="261"></div>As he says this, we see security footage of Woods being processed at a Florida police station during his 2017 arrest for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol."Tiger" codirector Matthew Hamachek said getting the footage of Earl speaking at the Haskins banquet was the most important archival footage in the movie because it laid the groundwork for <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-competitiveness-2015-4">Tiger's life</a>, which was filled with ups and downs.But getting the footage was a process.Hamachek told Insider that through doing research for the documentary, he and codirector Matthew Heineman came across a 1996 <keyword id="6356028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sports">Sports</keyword> Illustrated story that chronicled Earl's speech at the Haskins banquet."The writer Gary Smith had basically been at the banquet and was scribbling notes on a napkin about the speech," Hamachek told Insider, who instantly knew they had to find out if Earl's speech was filmed."I felt it was necessary to get Earl actually saying those words," he said, especially since no one had actually seen it before.So the director set out on a months-long process speaking to the organizers at Haskins about obtaining the footage."A lot of people had asked for [it] before, so they wanted to make sure to give it to someone who was going to do right by Tiger's story," Hamachek said. "It took a lot of time to talk to them and eventually in March of this year the organization finally agreed to release the footage to us. It was a huge day."Hamachek said with that footage starting the movie, which was also teased in the doc's teaser, set the stage for a story that was centered on a "father-son relationship.""It was the most important piece of archive [footage] in the entire film just because of how much it set up the relationship between Tiger and his father," he added. "A lot of what makes it complicated and loving at the same time are the expectations that Earl put onto Tiger."Likely one of the most examined <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiger-woods-son-charlie-pnc-championship-stole-show-didnt-win-2020-12">father-son relationships in golf</a>, it was well reported that Earl had high expectations for his son thanks to him once being a member of the Army Special Forces and an athlete in his own right. In fact, he was the first Black baseball player in Big Seven Conference history. Before his death in 2006, Earl had accurately predicted that Tiger would win at least 14 major championships. The golfer currently has 15 majors.Part 1 of "Tiger" is available on HBO Max now, part 2 airs on HBO and HBO Max on January 17.

It took months to get never-before-seen footage of Tiger Woods' father Earl for his HBO documentary. The director explains why it was so important.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="9403" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tiger">Tiger</keyword>" co-director <keyword id="10558920" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="matthew-hamachek">Matthew Hamachek</keyword> told Insider how he made the two-part <keyword id="71946" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="HBO">HBO</keyword> documentary on <keyword id="20491" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tiger-Woods">Tiger Woods</keyword>.</li><li>Hamachek revealed the two-year process to make the movie, which required a lot of time gaining the trust of Woods' inner circle to get them to open up.</li><li>The documentary also features the first-ever interview with Woods' mistress Rachel Uchitel, who details the phone call she made to Woods' then-wife, Elin Nordegren.</li><li>The golfer's first true love, Dina Parr, also revealed how he was once closed-off from the world as a twenty-something.</li><li>Women who partied with him in Las Vegas with Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley also appear.</li><li>Part 1 of "Tiger" airs on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday at 9 p.m. ET. Part 2 airs on January 17.</li></ul>Like most <keyword id="6356028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sports">sports</keyword> superstars, Tiger Woods is insulated by not only a team of agents, managers, and publicists, but also close friends who are so loyal to the golfing great that they would never dare speak publicly about his private life.That's why the new two-part HBO documentary "Tiger" is so revealing because directors Matthew Hamachek and Matthew Heineman were able to do just that: get people from Woods' inner circle to talk about him. Many did so for the first time ever.Because of the revelations from the people who were standing alongside the golfer, "Tiger" is a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs following Woods' life. This includes the caddie alongside Woods for his glory years, Steve Williams, and Rachel Uchitel, the woman whose face was splashed on tabloids when it was revealed that she was Woods' mistress.Hamachek, an editor and producer of documentaries like "Cartel Land" and "Amanda Knox," said it had been an obsession of his to do a documentary on Woods that delved not just into his amazing career, but also his troubled life off the course that included a sex addiction and drug dependency.It became a reality for Hamachek more than two years ago when he teamed up with Heineman to co-direct. Oscar-winning filmmaker, Alex Gibney, signed on to produce."So much of Tiger's story is misunderstood and lacks nuance and that's one of the things that Matt Heineman and I set out to correct," Hamachek told Insider. "Everybody has an opinion of Tiger that he's either a hero or villain, and what I think we both wanted to do was make people's understanding of him more complex."<div type="image" title="Tiger Woods Steve Williams" height="3264" width="4896" msid="80154380" hostid="261"></div><h2>How the directors gaining the trust of Woods' inner circle</h2>Hamachek said the key was gaining the trust of those close to Woods."Our mantra making this film was finding people who intimately knew Tiger Woods," Hamachek said. "Anyone can make a doc where you get experts and people who never met him and just have opinions, but it's different when you have people who spent time with him."The starting point was attaching the authors of "Tiger Woods," Armen Keteyian and Jeff Benedict, as executive producers. Their 2018 bestselling biography on Woods delved deep into his youth as a golf phenom thanks to the tutelage of his father, Earl. It also chronicled how Woods' womanizing ways when he became the greatest golfer in the world led to him destroying his image."Their book was the inspiration for the telling of this story," Hamachek said.With the authors' participation, the doc landed people like Dina Parr, Woods' first true love who revealed how he was once closed-off from the world as a twenty-something.Hamachek recalled having to wait outside the home of Parr, Woods' first love, to finally get her to agree to be interviewed on camera.Some of the women who partied with Woods when he became famous and took trips with Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley to Las Vegas also appear in the documentary.But Hamachek and Heineman uncovered more on their own. Like getting former pro golfer Joe Grohman to reveal how as a kid Woods witnessed his father having affairs with women; and Woods' former caddie Steve Williams (who was fired in 2011 after he began caddying for Adam Scott while Woods was injured) sharing what it was like to be alongside Woods for many of his most memorable PGA Tour wins.However, the biggest get by Hamachek and Heineman was Rachel Uchitel and it took months to secure.<div type="image" title="Rachel Uchitel" height="1000" width="1500" msid="80154382" hostid="261"></div><h2>Woods' one-time mistress speaks for the first time ever in the documentary</h2>In her first-ever interview, Uchitel gives jaw-dropping details about her affair with Woods, including the phone call she had with Woods' then-wife, Elin Nordegren that led to the now infamous 2009 car accident Woods had outside his Florida mansion over Thanksgiving weekend."Rachel felt strongly that nobody had ever told her side of the story," Hamachek said, "that the media had taken her and turned her into a caricature."Soon after that accident, a slew of women went public with their affairs with Woods, but Uchitel, a New York City night club manager, was locked in by the tabloids as the one who broke up his marriage with Nordegren. Woods and Nordegren would go onto divorce in 2010.Hamachek said Uchitel was the first interview they filmed and it lasted between seven to eight hours long."She really did tell her entire story of meeting Tiger, up to what happened [on] the night that their relationship came to an end," he said.And though there are a lot of moments that show Woods at his lowest points - even the police footage of Woods' 2017 arrest in Jupiter, Florida for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol - Hamachek said they did have a line they wouldn't go beyond."There were tons of salacious details we could have gotten into, but we wanted to get to the heart of who this guy is and why all this happened to him," he said.<div type="image" title="Tiger Woods" height="1051" width="1500" msid="80154383" hostid="261"></div><h2>Even those who have been scorned by Woods are still loyal to him</h2>So it begs the question: Why would all these people want to talk for the movie? Did they have an axe to grind?Hamachek actually said it was the opposite."Even the people who were scorned by Tiger [or] had a bone to pick with him, they are fiercely protective of him," said Hamachek, who noted that Woods was approached to be in the doc but declined.Parr, Williams, and Uchitel somehow they still have an allegiance to Woods even though their relationships didn't end well."That was the most surprising thing," Hamachek said. "The loyalty and caring they still have to this day for him despite breakups or being fired."Hamachek believes what finally got everyone to agree to be in the movie was because he and Heineman weren't trying to do a hit piece on Woods. They wanted to weave a story that makes viewers better understand Woods, regardless if you are a fan of him or not."From the minute he was born, he was thrust into this stage and everybody around him - his father, Nike, the public - threw all these expectations onto him," Hamachek said. "The pressure that comes with that was remarkable. I have a great deal of sympathy for him."Part 1 of "Tiger" airs on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday at 9 p.m. ET. Part 2 airs on January 17.

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