Why did he turn her down? Keshishian chuckles as he remembers their conversation. His sister, a talent agent, had just signed Gomez, who, it turned out, is a huge fan of In Bed With Madonna: “She watched it seven times in a row.” In fact, Keshishian said no when Gomez asked him to direct a tour video for her. I said: ‘You don’t want to give me the kind of access Madonna gave me. As he says himself, “I’m a cinéma vérité guy at heart”. Frankly, he is the last person you’d expect to find directing a film about Gomez, who, back in 2015, was mostly singing to screaming nine-year-olds in sold-out stadiums. Today he would pass for a cool professor, hair a shade of distinguished steel grey arranged in a vertical quiff. Back then he looked like a hip young film-maker crossed with a thug from a Scorsese movie: dark and handsome, all eyebrows. On Instagram, he occasionally posts throwback snaps of himself with Madonna. Keshishian is best known for directing 1991’s In Bed With Madonna, one of the best music documentaries ever made.
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“For someone who’s been doing this since she was seven, it doesn’t feel like Selena’s got all these layers of facade.” (Gomez started acting at seven her career really took off when she was 10, in the kids’ series Barney & Friends). Most of them have developed a kind of armour to present themselves to the world.” He pulls on imaginary arm protection.
“I have met every celebrity known to man.
Vulnerability was the first quality he noticed when he was introduced to Gomez, then aged 23, in 2015. “So vulnerable,” says the film’s director, Alek Keshishian, nodding over Zoom from his home in Los Angeles. Looking back at my notes, I scrawled “vulnerable” and underlined it twice to describe her. Most unexpectedly, My Mind & Me is rawer and less filtered than your standard authorised celebrity documentary. Alek Keshishian with one of his previous subjects: Madonna.
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