Filmmaker Matt Wolf learned that Paul Reubens had died along with the rest of the world. Wolf had spent years and hundreds of hours speaking to Reubens for a documentary and had one final interview that would have taken place the next week.

Matt Wolf's two-part HBO documentary on the life and career of Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman, explores his identity and need for control.

My career would’ve absolutely suffered if I was openly gay,” he reveals in the moving posthumous HBO documentary ‘Pee-wee as Himself.’ “So I went to great lengths for many, many years to keep it a secret.