Reaction to Amazon MGM's Melania documentary has certainly been divisive – it currently holds a critics’ rating of 11% on Rotten Tomatoes, but an audience rating of 98% – and that sense of polarisation was also evident during production, when producers were sourcing music for the film.
After Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood claimed that he wasn’t consulted about the documentary’s use of a portion of his score from Phantom Thread, the 2017 movie that was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Melania producer Marc Beckman – who’s worked with Melania Trump for more than two decades – has been speaking to Variety and giving his account of what happened both in that case, and those of several other artists.
