I asked “The Last Dance” director Jason Hehir about Burns’s comments and here is what he said: “I have the highest admiration for Ken Burns. He has been a hero of mine since I was a kid. His body of work is extraordinary. He called me a couple of days ago. Word had gotten back to him that the comments he made to The Wall Street Journal kind of had taken on a life of their own, so he called me to explain the context in which he said what he said. It was really gracious and really classy. This guy is one of the reasons I got into filmmaking, particularly that baseball series in 1994. I vividly remember watching that as a freshman in college. He did say that he looked forward to seeing it. He’s working on seven documentaries of his own right now and taking care of his kids and going through the pandemic like we all are. He said, ‘If anyone knows the feeling of asking someone to put 10 hours aside to watch their work, it’s me. So I will find 500 minutes to watch this.’ It was great to hear from him.