The 2-part HBO documentary reintroduces Paul Reubens to viewers who only knew him as Pee-wee Herman.

Director Matt Wolf spent two years interviewing Paul Reubens for his new HBO documentary "Pee-Wee as Himself," not realizing that the actor was dying of cancer. As he told TheWrap at Sundance earlier this year,

Before his death from cancer in 2023, Reubens sat for 40 hours of interviews with Wolf. His cooperation is clearly uncertain and sometimes strained in the film — he stopped part