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Since Natalie Wood\u2019s untimely death in 1981, theories have swirled around what happened and if anyone could\u2019ve been responsible for her drowning. Now, her daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, decided to take control of the narrative around her mother\u2019s death in Laurent Bouzereau\u2019s new documentary, \u201cNatalie Wood: What Remains Behind.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2012, I became a mom, so it started to become very important to me that I take a little bit of a hold of the narrative and diffuse some of the noise and shine a light on all of the amazing qualities about my mom that not everybody knows,\u201d Wagner told TheWrap\u2019s Beatrice Verhoeven at the Sundance Film Festival, where the film premiered.<\/p>\n
Bouzereau says he was approached by Wagner to do a documentary about her mother, and he was astounded at how much material there was to work with.<\/p>\n
Also Read:<\/strong> Natalie Wood’s Yacht Captain Believes Robert Wagner Murdered Actress<\/p>\n \u201cI started looking into the story and there was so much I didn\u2019t know,\u201d Bouzereau said. \u201cSo I went on a journey of discovering and really putting myself in that world and discovering not only a story about Hollywood but a story of a family and I felt that I could relate to it. And I hope viewers out there, even those who may not know who Natalie Wood was, will relate because it is a story of a tragedy but it\u2019s a story of a life well-lived as well as a story of an incredible mom, of a woman who was extremely before her time, extremely powerful. She had the power to say to the studios, \u2018I want Robert Redford in my movie, \u2018Inside Daisy Clover.\u2019 He had not had a career on the big screen yet.\u201d<\/p>\n Wagner is the daughter of Richard Gregson and Wood, but after the couple divorced, her mother remarried Robert Wagner in 1972. Wood was married to Wagner from 1972 until her death on Nov. 29, 1981, off Catalina Island in California. The then 43-year-old actress was sailing with Wagner, as well as Christopher Walken and Captain Dennis Davern, but was found floating in the water wearing a red down jacket and a flannel nightgown.<\/p>\n Also Read:<\/strong> Robert Wagner Called ‘Person of Interest’ in Natalie Wood’s 1981 Death by Investigator<\/p>\n Last February, Wagner was named a person of interest in the case. In 2011,\u00a0he was named \u201cnot a suspect\u201d by the sheriff\u2019s department. Investigators said Wagner has refused to speak with them since the case was reopened. There has long been speculation about the death of the \u201cWest Side Story\u201d star \u2014 at first, Wagner, Walken and Davern told detectives that she took a dinghy and went to shore. Over time, investigators say, Wagner and Davern\u2019s accounts shifted.<\/p>\n Read original story Why Natalie Wood\u2019s Daughter Decided to Take \u2018Hold of the Narrative\u2019 About Her Mother\u2019s Death in New Sundance Doc (Video) At TheWrap<\/p>\n<\/div>\n