Warhol treated Sedgwick’s life as raw material for films

Evidence

Then, according to Heide, Warhol (who had just committed Edie’s faux suicide to celluloid) wondered when she would kill herself, adding that “I hope she lets us know so we can film her.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 804

Categorization

  • CANDY: A genuinely dark and quotable Warhol anecdote — the kind of thing people repeat at dinner parties and in articles about Warhol’s relationship to his superstars.