Kat Graham has addressed why she does not appear as Diana Ross in the new Michael Jackson biopic.<\/p>\n
Variety confirmed in 2024 that Graham would portray legendary Supremes lead singer in Michael, which stars the late pop star’s nephew Jaafar Jackson in the lead role.<\/p>\n
In advance of the film’s launch on Friday, Graham shared in a statement that the scenes she filmed for the project ended up on the cutting room floor.<\/p>\n
“Ahead of the release of the Michael Jackson film, I want to share that certain legal considerations affected a few scenes, including the ones I filmed with an incredible cast,” she wrote.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately, those moments are no longer part of the Final Cut, though the team worked hard to preserve as much of the story as possible.”<\/p>\n
Michael covers the singer’s rise to fame as a member of The Jackson 5 and eventual break from his family. It’s unclear where Ross may have factored into the biopic, which follows the Thriller singer’s life into the late 1980s.<\/p>\n
This is not the first legal hurdle the film’s creators have had to leap. In 2025, a Puck report noted that the movie was forced to reshoot certain scenes after lawyers realised a clause in a settlement with Jordan Chandler – one of several people who have accused Jackson of sexual abuse in the past – prevented any dramatisation of those claims in the film.<\/p>\n
The New Yorker reported that film bosses are considering using some of the unused footage in a potential sequel.<\/p>\n
Michael ends with a title card that reads, “His Story Continues.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kat Graham has addressed why she does not appear as Diana Ross in the new Michael Jackson biopic.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-395087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}