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Michael’s Juliano Valdi Details Young Michael Jackson Role Journey
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As a producer on the film, Michael Jackson's eldest child "was on set every day," lead producer Graham King told The Hollywood Reporter at the film's April 20 Los Angeles premiere.
Prince, who attended premieres in L.A. and Berlin, has also touted his cousin Jaafar Jackson's performance, writing April 11 on Instagram that watching Jermaine Jackson's son "step into the role of his uncle Michael is incredibly special for the family. With his talent, dedication and spirit, he was the only right choice to portray Michael and bring his story to the big screen."
When Colman Domingo, who plays her late grandfather Joe Jackson, said that Prince and Paris were “very much in support” of Michael, Paris begged to differ.
“Don’t be telling people I was ‘helpful’ on the set of a movie I had 0% involvement in lol,” Michael’s daughter wrote on her Instagram Story in August 2025. “That is so weird.”
Rather, she continued, “I read one of the first drafts of the script and gave my notes about what was dishonest / didn’t sit right with me and when they didn’t address it I moved on with my life. Not my monkeys not my circus. God bless and god speed.”
She crystalized her take the following month, saying in a series of Instagram videos, “They’re gonna make whatever they’re gonna make. The big reason why I haven’t said anything up until this point is because I know a lot of you guys are gonna be happy with it” because it “panders to a very specific section of my dad’s fandom that still lives in a fantasy.”
Hollywood biopics are “sold to you as real,” Paris said, but they’re “sugar-coated.”
Meaning, she alleged, “The narrative is being controlled. There’s a lot of inaccuracy and there’s a lot of full-blown lies. At the end of the day, that doesn’t really fly with me. I don’t really like dishonesty.”
Paris also pushed back against accusations that she “hates her dad…because I’m not, like, calling the shots on set being a big-shot producer of a movie that’s filled with just inaccuracies. That’s not my truth…I just prefer honesty over sales and monetary gain.”