Dan Reed

Some of them, not all of them, but some of them are a nasty lot.

And they treat Jackson like a god.

And so they treat me like a blasphemer who, you know, should be sort of put to death in the nastiest possible way.

That was shocking.

I don't mind telling you.

I've dealt with some very nasty people in my documentary career.

The Jackson fan base are the nastiest of the lot.

Um, but, and, and, you know, some of that has come back.

We've been receiving emails, you know, saying disobliging things about my late mother, bless her and my children.

Um, so that's not very welcome.

And clearly there's a seam of real nastiness, which matches, you know, the nastiness of the man himself who, um,

who felt he was, you know, beyond the law, who felt he could do whatever he wanted, and that included using children for his sexual gratification.

And, you know, it's a difficult truth to hold in your head when you're listening to Billie Jean or enjoying the guy's dancing.

He was an amazing entertainer.

But unfortunately, that's the complicated situation that we live in when we look at Michael Jackson and we consider how to interpret this new movie, which is a huge success.

I once see it at the weekend, actually.

In the same theater, we had the press premiere of Leaving Neverland, my 2019 documentary, so that was kind of weird.

It's definitely a crowd pleaser.

It's a kind of jukebox movie with, I mean, Jaffa Jackson is a great dancer.

He can move.