Paul Reubens spent more than 40 hours discussing his life and career in the months before his 2023 death for the new two-part HBO documentary 'Pee-wee as Himself'.

With more than 40 hours of interviews, director Matt Wolf has fashioned a compelling, three-hour-plus documentary that still leaves questions unanswered.

And Reubens knew as he gave his forty brief hours of sit-down interviews for it that this documentary was going to end up being his last chance at shaping his story the way he wanted to—he’d been secretly fighting cancer for several years (even the filmmakers didn’t know this) and he passed away on July 30th 2023 still in the middle of its making,