Joshua Rofe’s film Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed premieres on Netflix Aug. 25.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did you get involved in the project?
I knew I had to make this film because I wanted to know why.
Bob Ross.Credit: Netflix
I felt there was no question that this will yield an interesting story.
But what I was more interested in was the morality and the battle as it related to that.
It was that stuff that I felt was really going to be at the heart of this film.
What did you find out about Bob Ross himself?
He was much livelier offscreen than he was onscreen.
He was just a guy who loved life and loved to be around people.
Was it difficult to locate footage of him?
Yeah, for sure.
They have footage that really doesn’t exist anywhere else and that nobody’s ever seen before.
Do you paint yourself?
Or were you tempted to pick up a brush in the course of making the film?
I am an absolutely pathetic painter who has done it barely at all.
It’s not something that I am particularly adept at.
Watch an exclusive clip fromBob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greedabove.
