Lanre Bakare

I'm skeptical about some of the accusations and introducing the element of doubt.

Antoine Farquhar, the director, has said that in a recent interview with The New Yorker.

And he's done that on the campaign trail.

He's not come out and said, I don't believe in any allegations, but he has said that people want to make money out of Michael Jackson.

People do some nasty things in order to make money.

Yeah, not saying that directly, but kind of alluding to that and pushing people in that direction, which I think is interesting.

And I think that gap is enough for people to say,

all right, well, there's a benefit of the doubt here.

It's Michael Jackson.

This is one of the biggest films of the year.

He's this huge cultural figure.

He's got all the songs in it because they work with the estate.

I want to go watch this.

There is clearly a market for biopics of these huge musical stars.

Yeah.

Yeah, they do.

I mean, I think it's a funny one.

I was thinking about O.J.

Simpson and the way that he... There was that moment maybe 10 years ago with the kind of FX kind of soapy drama where you had like David Schwimmer and Cuba Goody Jr.

But at the same time, you had O.J.