Director Alex Gibney said his film on Elon Musk became an epic two-part story because the events kept evolving, especially after Trump’s nearly assassination and Musk’s decision to align himself with Trump, and he described Musk as someone who follows the same playbook over and over again, from manipulating stock price and rewriting the story of his role in Tesla’s founding to using the same tactics in his takeover of Twitter and political influence; Gibney pointed to what he sees as Musk’s “original sin” in the battery-swap and founder-credit story with Martin Eberhard, said the film focuses enough on Musk’s drug use to show self-medication without overemphasizing it, and discussed the revealing interviews with Errol and May Musk, the strained but intense family dynamics, Musk’s treatment of women and daughters, the use of NDAs and financial contracts around his children, and the broader sense that Musk is a deeply unhappy man whose power, fame, and rage have amplified his worst traits. Subscribe to Fast Politics and listen 4x a week for interviews just like this on your favorite podcast app: https://episodes.fm/1645614328