Anthony Weiner Practices Apologizing in First Trailer for Juicy New Documentary, Weiner
In 2013, disgraced former U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner decided to run for mayor in an attempt to rehabilitate his image after a sexting scandal drove him from office. Instead he got caught up in a new sexting scandal—and this time a documentary film crew was there to record the whole thing. This week the first trailer dropped, and damn does it look good.
The two-and-a-half minute trailer is jam packed with tense behind-the-scenes moments as Weiner, ostensibly on a comeback tour, falls prey to his own hubris again and again.
In between, he practices apologizing: “I am profoundly sorry,” he says to an empty room, before trying another tack. “For that, I am profoundly sorry.
The trailer also previews two other much-hyped scenes. In the first, Weiner’s wife, longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, calmly instructs a nervous aide about to face an onslaught of reporters, “Just a quick optics thing—you will look happy.”
“We’re going to try to look like we’re holding together as a group,” Weiner says during the same meeting.
In the second, Weiner’s mistress Sydney Leathers—codenamed Pineapple by his staff—chases him barefoot through a McDonalds in an attempt to confront him.
“This is the worst, doing a documentary on my scandal,” Weiner grumbles with a pained look on his face. I beg to differ.
The movie is set for release on May 20.