Ezra Edelman

So the other thing is, this is, by the way, this is the first time I ever thought about this, is I guess I'm a little like Prince in that way.

I just want to move on.

So yeah, I'm not interested in being a person who gets on TV and all of a sudden adds my two cents about O.J.

I don't care.

That's correct.

I had this conversation with a couple people who saw the film and they thought it was going to be more like O.J.,

What Prince means to people and all this stuff.

And I'm like, no, this is about this person who no one ever knew about.

I was after the truth about this person's existence.

Some of which, by the way, is his effect on others in terms of him as an artist and his popularity.

But a lot of it was trying to be ironically told from his perspective of what he was doing and his own thrust going through his life.

deliberately different and now i just wonder if it also feels like it's endangered because when the question of who wants this is a good one i do believe a lot of people want this look i've gone through the journey with however few people have seen this movie it's in six chapters and their relationship to who prince is like changes throughout the course of it but by the end of it

You know, everyone loves him or everyone's more curious about him and his music than, for instance, before, even if they didn't know anything about him.

No, it's like the promise.

It's kind of what Jill said.

It's like, man, he struggled so much.

He was so like insecure and he had so much trauma and his unwillingness and his insecurity prevented him from being open about said trauma because he had to present himself as this perfect genius.

And his inability to share his truth was one of the reasons why he suffered his addiction in silence.

And you would argue that but for the way he was, other people in his position might have been more able to get help.

And I think that's one of the tragedies about his story.