Ezra Edelman

He understood this better than anyone.

He knew that revealing his true self, stripped of the carefully crafted persona, would lead to rejection.

And in a way, he was right.

The recent choices made by Netflix and his estate only reinforced this truth.

The world is unwilling to accept Prince as a man, only as a myth.

Without the elaborate stagecraft, without the veil of mystery, his raw humanity is deemed insufficient.

His struggles, his journey, his sacrifices, all the elements that shaped him will remain obscured.

Instead, the world will likely receive a sanitized, polished version of Prince, a carefully curated illusion that erases the depth of his reality.

Yeah, you should have.

I don't think these are similar exercises.

O.J.

by dint of what he had gone through had been one of the more picked over Americans in our recent cultural history.

So like I didn't expect there to be that much revelatory

intimately that I was going to find about OJ that hasn't already in some ways been reported on.

I was more interested in taking a larger view of a story that sort of ended up being so fixated around, you know, a year period and a night and what happened and all this stuff that I didn't frankly care about.

To understand the greater sort of sociological, historical context that led us to this moment

and why everyone sort of lost their minds in this the way they did.

Yeah, so did a lot of people.

You did zero interviews.

Like, I already did it, in my mind.