Ezra Edelman

And by the way, warts and all in many ways, he could always hide behind the fact that it was, quote, fiction, but it wasn't fiction.

And in our film, by the way, we use that to basically sort of play with the truthiness of his existence.

There's so much in that that is real.

And now the fact that we've arrived 40 years later, and rather than just like, oh, it's the 40th anniversary of Purple Rain, which was last year, and celebrating that, no, we're going to

revisit it and revamp it and sanitize it and in turn sanitize Prince's image for current audiences, for younger audiences to make him a less troubling figure.

That is f***ed up.

I'm sorry.

I mean, it's not surprising.

It's Broadway, right?

But like, again, this is what we're dealing with.

I don't think my documentary stood much of a chance if this is what's happening.

It's just sad.

Well, I mean, again, it was a tenth of my life.

If you look at it that way.

I hadn't until now.

Like, why would I?

I think probably affects you differently physically mentally when you get older and like it affected me so like I don't think I need to do that anymore.

but I also, it is that painful.

Look, here's the thing.

I'm sitting here doing your podcast, but like, you know, Caroline Waterlow, Tamara Rosenberg, Nina Christig, Brett Granato, Gabe Rhodes, Ben Cizanski.