Lars Ulrich Didn’t Like Seeing Kurt Cobain in a Bathtub
In the Some Kind of Monster documentary, the mystique of Metallica was ripped away as fans 
were shown a band that struggled so much to get along, group therapy was needed to keep it together.
So, it becomes ironic to us when Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich feels as if the Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck documentary affected the mystique of the fallen Nirvana leader.
“I thought it was a great piece of filmmaking. I thought it was unique; [I’d] never quite seen a film like that,” said Ulrich in an interview on Sixx Sense with Nikki Sixx. “I loved being that close to [Kurt], but I also had issues being that close to him, because it took a little bit of the mystique away. And I was kind of sitting there going, ‘Do I really need to see Kurt Cobain in a bathtub?’ Do you know what I mean?! That kind of stuff.”
“I thought, as a film, it was a fantastic, original, very brave piece of filmmaking. And I thought it was very courageous and very daring,” continued Ulrich. “And I applaud the fact that the film was made. ]But] as a fan of Cobain, and as a fan of Nirvana, it was almost too much, it was almost too close. Do you know what I mean?! Because, now, next time I hear ‘Come As You Are’ or one of those songs, I’ll still sit there and think of him in a bathtub of him shaving, or that scene at the end where he’s holding [his daughter] Frances [Bean Cobain], and some of that stuff, which was challenging to watch.”
Ulrich went on to explain that he only saw Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck recently and is still in the midst of processing it, adding that he anticipates watching the film “multiple times” in the future.
“From the moment Kurt Cobain burst into the public scene with ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ there has been an absolute cultural obsession with Kurt,” offered the film’s director Brett Morgen during an interview in March. “But Kurt had very limited interactions with media during his lifetime and so the public’s perception of Kurt, for the most part for the last 25 years, has been very steeped in mythology, projection and fantasy. With Montage of Heck, audiences for the first time are going to meet Kurt Cobain.
He continued: “You literally go through life with Kurt Cobain in this film and you go through it in his eyes and through his experiences. That’s really rare in a documentary.”
-Adam Grant
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