Documentary director discusses Billie Eilish’s Tourette syndrome

RJ Cutler recently spoke with Deadline about how he chose to portray Billie Eilish’s Tourette syndrome in the documentary, The World’s A Little Blurry. 

Eilish was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, a neurological disorder, as a child and the film made no attempts to hide it.

Cutler told the outlet, “If you watched [the film] looking for it, you’re going to see that the Tourette’s is present with her. It just is. It’s who she is. The context is it’s part of her daily existence… I don’t even want to over-explain it.”

The director continued, “The film accepts her on her own terms and aspires to accept her on her own terms at all points. And that includes her Tourette’s as well as other aspects of her life and who she is.”