The New York Post (to read the full article click here): The documentary, “Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind,” debuts May 5 on HBO and creates an affectionate portrait of Wood’s at-home life with actor Robert Wagner, whom she married twice, and her two children in their Beverly Hills, Calif., home. Natasha was 11 years old and summoned from a sleepover at a friend’s house when her 43-year-old mother’s lifeless body was found in the water off Catalina Island after Thanksgiving in 1981.
“The day my mom died, my entire world was shattered,” Natasha says in the HBO documentary, which also features interviews with Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Redford, Mia Farrow and more.
The couple was on board their yacht, the Splendour, on a stormy weekend with Christopher Walken, Natalie’s co-star in the sci-fi movie “Brainstorm.
In the documentary, Robert tells Natasha how he and the “Deer Hunter” star had been arguing over his wife’s purpose in life after having consumed quite a bit of wine. Walken was in favor of Wood pursuing her career.
As Robert tells it, the argument between the two men escalated and Wood retreated to their bedroom below deck. When he went to find her, she was gone. After alerting onshore personnel and the Coast Guard that she was missing, her lifeless body was discovered.
