Pablo Torre

And you are taking an approach that is...

It's what the estate to me has always gotten backwards, which is that we live in a time at which it's harder than ever to cancel, quote unquote, somebody.

And this is not a film that your takeaway ends up being as a viewer.

Get this guy the fuck out of here.

There is a thing on Prince's Twitter account that the estate seems to have posted when that variety story came out.

And it was kind of like a mini trailer for a forthcoming other project that is deliberately not the Ezra Edelman project.

But the quote from Prince posthumously is, despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

But I think the question we are left with as a media industry is what are we trying to do when it comes to people who don't want their own story told?

But that editorial power of decision-making, what deserves to be in what feels like an authoritative treatment of someone's story, why should it be you?

But look, part of the whole thing with Prince, right, is that his genius was validated over and over again by his output.

And you are somebody in a very different way whose swings are so big recently.

But the genre in which a documentarian is holding to account a celebrity in service of what feels like the public interest.

I should point out that the Variety story does have a quote from Netflix, which says that the Prince estate and Netflix have come to a mutual agreement that will allow the estate to develop and produce a new documentary featuring exclusive content from Prince's archive.

As a result, the Netflix documentary will not be released.

There are Richard Nixons, and then there are our favorite musicians, the people who bring us comfort because they're in the toy department of music or sports, as opposed to what legislation did Prince pass?

Removing the complexity from a deliberately complicated person.

That seems like an exercise that can make someone not want to try and take a swing like this again.

But the reason I say that is because the reason that you deserve to have swings like this the reason you deserve to take these swings the reason you deserve to have

this editorial authority in which I want that guy trying to crack this safe, I want that guy making the decisions, is because what the media, broadly speaking, what journalists really need more than ever are people who take that task so seriously that it makes them unhappy.

Because we're going to test it, right?