In a 2024 interview with Variety,
Morgan Neville spoke about why the film did not discuss
Steve Martin's famous "King Tut" song and performance: "To bring it up, then you have to have this modern discussion of what was Steve trying to say with it? That would be narrative quicksand. The reason Steve wrote that song and the context around it, which was totally lost, was that he was actually making fun of the consumerization and fetishization of ancient cultures in the West and all that. So that's another documentary. But again I was concerned with his standup story and where he was at that time. As opposed to what's our 2023 reading of something at that time? So honestly, 'King Tut' wasn't at the top of my list of things to put in the film. It was never a scene in the film even before the internet (controversy)."
