Sasha Weiss

And actually, after the news of the film being finally killed broke, Jill Jones, who's the girlfriend that I was talking about before, who was one of the people who appears in the film talking about Prince's abuse of her was a lot of pain. Right. posted something that I thought was incredibly moving about what's wrong with this film not coming out. She was very in favor of the film coming out.

Well, let me read you a little bit of it because I think she says it really beautifully. So she says, "...Prince was a man who lived under the weight of expectation, both his own and those of the world that adored him." He built a persona so larger than life that it became a prison, a gilded cage, one he could never fully step out of.

Well, let me read you a little bit of it because I think she says it really beautifully. So she says, "...Prince was a man who lived under the weight of expectation, both his own and those of the world that adored him." He built a persona so larger than life that it became a prison, a gilded cage, one he could never fully step out of.

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.

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 most likely receive a sanitized, polished version of Prince, in quotation marks, a carefully curated illusion that erases the depth of his reality.

His struggles, his journey, his sacrifices, all the elements that shaped him will remain obscured. Instead, the world will most likely receive a sanitized, polished version of Prince, in quotation marks, a carefully curated illusion that erases the depth of his reality.

I thought that was something really extraordinary coming from someone who had been hurt by Prince, who saw some of the worst of Prince. But she can hold that against, A, his greatness, but B, these sort of layers of pain that prevented him from being known. And she's saying, like, let's look at the whole thing because that's the way to really appreciate who this man was.

I thought that was something really extraordinary coming from someone who had been hurt by Prince, who saw some of the worst of Prince. But she can hold that against, A, his greatness, but B, these sort of layers of pain that prevented him from being known. And she's saying, like, let's look at the whole thing because that's the way to really appreciate who this man was.

I think that's exactly right. And I think, humanly, not only artistically, We have to make room for what's broken in us. And that's part of the story. Sometimes it's the center of the story. And that's what Edelman has done here.

I think that's exactly right. And I think, humanly, not only artistically, We have to make room for what's broken in us. And that's part of the story. Sometimes it's the center of the story. And that's what Edelman has done here.

And yeah, I find it really like bitterly ironic what Jill Jones is saying that like maybe in some way, one of Prince's deepest fears was that he would be seen and people would run away scared. And that's what's happened. So this leaves Ezra in a kind of existential limbo. And I know he's thinking a lot about his future as a filmmaker.

And yeah, I find it really like bitterly ironic what Jill Jones is saying that like maybe in some way, one of Prince's deepest fears was that he would be seen and people would run away scared. And that's what's happened. So this leaves Ezra in a kind of existential limbo. And I know he's thinking a lot about his future as a filmmaker.

A question in people's minds may be like, where is the film? Like, where does it exist? Like, is the film itself in a vault? Like, it's in a hard drive somewhere?

A question in people's minds may be like, where is the film? Like, where does it exist? Like, is the film itself in a vault? Like, it's in a hard drive somewhere?

Ezra, thank you so much.

Ezra, thank you so much.

You too.

You too.

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