She hit the big time with 4 Non Blondes, then penned hits for everyone from Christina Aguilera to Courtney Love. But as an intimate new film about her life shows, she\u2019s had to confront illness, family trauma and an identity crisis<\/p>\n
When Linda Perry agreed to let the\u00a0director Don\u00a0Hardy film her at\u00a0work in her\u00a0studio, she had no idea what she was getting into.\u00a0Perry \u2013 the singer, producer and wildly successful songwriter-for-hire \u2013 had been friends with Hardy since she scored his 2020 film, Citizen Penn, about the actor Sean Penn\u2019s charity work in Haiti. If nothing else, Perry hoped she might use some of Hardy\u2019s footage as content on her Instagram account: \u201cSo he just started showing up and\u00a0I soon forgot he was there.\u201d<\/p>\n
After a few weeks, Hardy told Perry\u00a0he had edited 30 minutes of footage and shown it to colleagues. \u201cHe\u00a0said: \u2018We think there\u2019s an incredible documentary to be made here,\u2019\u201d she recalls. \u201cAnd so I said: \u2018OK,\u00a0go ahead but don\u2019t talk to me about it. I don\u2019t want to know anything. Just do what you\u2019re going to do and if I said it or did it, I\u2019ll stand by it.\u2019 And then things just started to go cuckoo for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
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