Ezra Edelman spent five years making a film of nine hours on Prince, which Netflix decided not to broadcast last month.
Oscar -winning filmmaker Ezra Edelman called ” joke The situation surrounding his documentary on Prince during his first big interview since Netflix definitively buried the project last month.
Ezra Edelman did not chew his words on the Podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out, rejecting the claims of the succession of prince according to which his film was filled with factual inaccuracies ” dramatic “And interpretations” sensationalist »Of certain events. The director noted that the ” only That the beneficiaries were authorized to do was to report factual errors in his film; Instead, they returned with ” A 17 -page document filled with editorial questions, and not factual ».
Edelman, who spent five years making his film on Prince after winning an Oscar for his documentary Oj made in America In 2016, added: ” Do you think that I have any interest in making a film that is inaccurate in terms of facts? »»
The reservations issued by the succession of prince about Edelman's film were reported for the first time last summer. A few months later, an article from New York Times revealed that the film contained interviews with old girlfriends, who claimed that Prince could be physically and emotionally violent. Other interviewees said that Prince had himself been mistreated in his childhood and that he could be manipulative.
Last month, Netflix announced that he had reached a ” mutual agreement »With the succession of Prince not to publish the Edelman project and produce a new documentary instead with” exclusive content from Prince Archives ».
Ezra Edelman said what he found most ” exasperating “It was” myopia of a group of people whose interest is their own profitability ». He said that “ The lawyer who manages the succession “Thought that the film” would cause generational damage to Prince ” And ” would dissuade young spectators and fans, potentially, to love prince ».
The director seemed to find it frustrating: ” It is a gift, nine hours on an artist who, by the way, was damn brilliant. Everything you think is in this film. We bathe in his genius. And yet, it is also necessary to face its humanity which, moreover, in a way, has been trapped without being able to exhibit it, because it was trapped in its own myth. »»
A representative of the prince's estate did not respond to the request for comments from WECB.
