{"id":119409,"date":"2025-09-04T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119409\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:37:05","slug":"michael-jacksons-daughter-paris-criticises-sugar-coated-biopic-about-her-father-michael-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119409\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson\u2019s daughter Paris criticises \u2018sugar-coated\u2019 biopic about her father | Michael Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paris Jackson has criticised an upcoming biopic of her father, Michael Jackson<\/a>, saying she had \u201czero per cent involvement\u201d in the film, which she suggests has been \u201csugar-coated\u201d in a broader swipe at Hollywood biopics that contain \u201cfull-blown lies\u201d.<\/p>\n

The comments came just two days after the actor Colman Domingo, who plays the family patriarch Joe Jackson in the film Michael, praised Paris\u2019s contribution.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, while hosting the amfAR benefit gala for Aids research at Venice film festival, Domingo told People magazine<\/a> that Paris and her brother Prince were \u201cvery much in support of our film\u201d.<\/p>\n

Domingo said Paris had been \u201cnothing but lovely and warm\u201d to him. \u201cI\u2019m excited to be here at Amfar tonight with Paris,\u201d he said. \u201cIt feels like that\u2019s a nice way for us to be together.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday night Paris took to Instagram to reject Domingo\u2019s version of events.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t be telling people I was \u2018helpful\u2019 on the set of a movie I had zero per cent involvement in lol that is so weird,\u201d the 27-year-old singer and actor wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cI read one of the first drafts of the script and gave my notes about what was dishonest \/ didn\u2019t sit right with me, and when they didn\u2019t address it, I moved on with my life.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot my monkeys, not my circus. God bless and God speed.\u201d<\/p>\n

She later expanded on her comments in follow-up Instagram stories, saying she had been explicitly told the production would not address her notes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I just butted out and left it alone because it\u2019s not my project,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re going to make whatever they\u2019re going to make. A big reason why I haven\u2019t said anything up until this point is because I know a lot of you guys are gonna be happy with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cA big section of the film panders to a very specific section of my dad\u2019s fandom that still lives in the fantasy, and they\u2019re gonna be happy with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paris continued to critique the \u201csugar-coated\u201d Hollywood biopic model generally: \u201cThe narrative is being controlled and there\u2019s a lot of inaccuracy and there\u2019s a lot of just full-blown lies. At the end of the day, that doesn\u2019t really fly with me. Go enjoy it. Do whatever. Leave me out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The biopic, which has been produced in conjunction with the Jackson estate, has been gestating since at least 2019.<\/p>\n

It attracted controversy when Puck magazine<\/a> reported that the film was facing rewrites and reshoots after a third-act plotline about one of Michael Jackson\u2019s accusers could not be used for legal reasons.<\/p>\n

A source close to the production denied the reports. \u201cThe Michael Jackson biopic is not in total chaos,\u201d the source told People<\/a> at the time. \u201cThe inflammatory headlines about the movie halting are simply not true.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jaafar Jackson, Michael Jackson\u2019s nephew, will make his feature debut as the pop megastar in the biopic, whose cast also includes Miles Teller, Nia Long and Kat Graham.<\/p>\n

Michael is set for release on 24 April 2026.<\/p>\n

The Guardian has contacted representatives for Domingo, as well as the biopic\u2019s production company, for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paris Jackson has criticised an upcoming biopic of her father, Michael Jackson, saying she had \u201czero per cent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-119409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}