Gloria Steinems farewell interview to stream on Netflix
Gloria Steinems farewell interview is heading to Netflix on Famous Last Words, the series that banks sit-downs for release only after a subject's death. Recorded in February 2025 with Brad Falchuk and held until she died at 92, it shares what she hoped would be her final message.
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem is the third figure featured on Netflix's Famous Last Words, following chimpanzee expert Dr. Jane Goodall and actor Eric Dane. Steinem died Wednesday at her home in New York City. She was 92.
Key Takeaways
- Gloria Steinems farewell interview was taped in February 2025 and locked until after her death.
- Netflix will release the sit-down on Famous Last Words, hosted by Brad Falchuk.
- She discusses feminism, race and sex caste systems, Indigenous cultures, family, and regrets.
- The format is based on Denmark's Det Sidste Ord, with remotely operated cameras and a final on-camera message.
- Audible will separately release her July Minetta Lane appearances on Sept. 17.
What is Gloria Steinems farewell interview on Netflix?
Per Netflix, the conversation frames Steinem as "a lifelong traveler on the road to justice." While she is widely known as a face of modern feminism, the interview also explores the shared origins of sex and race caste systems, Indigenous cultures, and organizing across boundaries for equality.
She also uses the closed-door format to speak freely about her loves, her family, complicated personal politics within the feminist movement, and her regrets. At the end, subjects look into a camera and deliver last words kept confidential until their passing.
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Why does this Netflix release matter now?
Steinem helped launch Ms. magazine, helped establish the Women's Action Alliance, and wrote books including her 2015 memoir My Life on the Road. President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.
"Gloria Steinem was the steady heartbeat of a revolution, but in this room, she was a woman reflecting on the simple, profound beauty of human connection," Falchuk said. "Even in her final moments, she was organizing us, challenging us to keep moving forward."
Variety reports that the chat was recorded in private under the show's rules and held as her intended farewell to the world.
When else can fans hear Gloria Steinem speak?
Although Famous Last Words will be the final posted interview of this kind, it was not her last public conversation. On Sept. 17, Audible plans to release "Yes to the Unknown: A Night with Gloria Steinem," recorded July 14 and 16 at Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre in New York.
Amy Richards led those evenings; Keri Russell performed excerpts from Steinem's writing on July 14. The Netflix series is executive produced by Falchuk and Mikkel Bondesen through Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision, alongside BSNA, David Goldberg, and showrunner David Friedman, with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as an executive producer and archive home.