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Ezra Edelman

Ezra Edelman

American director

Apr 9, 2026

24:11
Can I read something to you? I was wondering why your phone is out.
24:14
Jill Jones.
24:16
who was a prince protege, a muse, who spent essentially the 80s with him, and was someone who was a girlfriend of Prince's, was in the film, and to me, one of the most truthful voices in the film, and was someone who discussed in detail an instance where she was abused by Prince physically.
24:39
And by the way, that's not the totality of the story of her with Prince, but like you still see how much she loves him, even though she went through an experience with him.
24:47
That was hard, like a decade of her life wanting more, wanting to be an artist that was got to do her own album, wanting to be his exclusive girlfriend or the girlfriend when she always was sort of like, not that it was almost someone again, when you talk about.
25:02
what it means to be a kept woman or she even, you know, she refers to him as like a pimp in the movie.
25:09
And like, by the way, this is one side, but this is what she wrote after the news came out about the film being canceled.

24 MINS LATER

49:29
So what I'm left thinking at the end here, what I want to find out is now with the benefit of hindsight, would you do this over again?
27:31
And
27:31
then you have to paint a correction and all these things, but it's an earnest thing and you understand that there's a system in place.
27:36
That's why these things are valuable properties and are in a, Functioning society.
27:42
Now, to your point, you have streaming services, and I'm not going to here to indict anyone specifically, but you have this glut of content.
27:50
So now it's like, what's a documentary and what's content? And ostensibly, there's now films that exist where, oh, hey, David, I called you up and said, I would like to make a documentary on you.
28:01
And you said, okay, that's cool.
28:02
Talk to my agent.

6 MINS LATER

34:03
There are degrees that will be proposed.
23:07
Discover your sense of place at Pura.com. Can I read something to you? I was wondering why your phone is out.
23:20
Jill Jones, who was a Prince protege, a muse, who spent essentially the 80s with him and was someone who was a girlfriend of Prince's, was in the film and to me one of the most truthful voices in the film and was someone who discussed in detail an instance where she was abused by Prince physically.
23:45
And by the way, that's not the totality of the story of her with Prince, but like you still see how much she loves him, even though she went through an experience with him.
23:54
That was hard, like a decade of her life wanting more, wanting to be an artist that was got to do her own album, wanting to be his exclusive girlfriend or the girlfriend when she always was sort of like, not that it was almost someone again, when you talk about.
24:08
what it means to be a kept woman or she even, you know, she refers to him as like a pimp in the movie.
24:16
And like, by the way, this is one side, but this is what she wrote after the news came out about the film being canceled.
24:24
Yeah.

26 MINS LATER

50:02
So what I'm thinking at the end here, what I want to find out is now with the benefit of hindsight, would you do this over again?
19:07
Can I read something to you? I was wondering why your phone is out.
19:10
Jill Jones, who was a Prince protege, a muse, who spent essentially the 80s with him and was someone who was a girlfriend of Prince's, was in the film and to me one of the most truthful voices in the film and was someone who discussed in detail an instance where she was abused by Prince physically.
19:35
And by the way, that's not the totality of the story of her with Prince.
19:38
But like you still see how much she loves him, even though she went through an experience with him.
19:44
That was hard, like a decade of her life wanting more, wanting to be an artist that was got to do her own album, wanting to be his exclusive girlfriend or the girlfriend when she always was sort of like, not that.
19:55
It was almost someone again, when you talk about what it means to be a kept woman or she even, you know, she refers to him as like a pimp in the movie.
20:06
And like, by the way, this is one side, but this is what she wrote after the news came out about the film being canceled.

22 MINS LATER

42:02
So what I'm left thinking at the end here, what I want to find out is now with the benefit of hindsight, would you do this over again?
27:51
But I think, you know, Ezra sees it the opposite way
27:54
... you know, what do you see when you visit Paisley Park? Um, oh, this is where a guy lived, but what you see is now a museum that's full of rooms that are named after albums.
28:06
There are rooms that are full of his shoes.
28:09
There are rooms that are full of his outfits, but there's really no mention of sex.
28:16
There's really no mention of religion.
28:19
There's a glossy thing that's being promoted for monetary gain, this image that we continually need to traffic in of this person who wore glitzy outfits and glitzy shoes and made all this work, all of which is true, but, like, it's so much deeper, his struggles between good and evil in himself, the struggle that you see in the music and the art, and then how it played out in his life.
28:49
It's like, how can you not want to tell that story?
33:47
And why, you know, why can't we let Prince stand as a kind of, you know, monument before we start to take him apart? So what, what, what do you make of that argument?
22:01
That's C-A-R-G-U-R-U-S.com. CarGurus.com. Can I read something to you? I was wondering why your phone is out.
22:17
Jill Jones.
22:19
who was a prince protege, a muse, who spent essentially the 80s with him, and was someone who was a girlfriend of Prince's, was in the film, and to me, one of the most truthful voices in the film, and was someone who discussed in detail an instance where she was abused by Prince physically.
22:42
And by the way, that's not the totality of the story of her with Prince, but you still see how much she loves him.
22:48
Even though she went through an experience with him, that was hard.
22:51
Like a decade of her life wanting more, wanting to be an artist that got to do her own album, wanting to be his exclusive girlfriend or the girlfriend when she always was sort of like, not that.
23:02
It was almost someone, again, when you talk about what it means to be a kept woman or she even, you know, she refers to him as like a pimp.

26 MINS LATER

48:59
So what I'm left thinking at the end here, what I want to find out is, now with the benefit of hindsight, would you do this over again?
18:04
Can I read something to you? I was wondering why your phone is out.
18:07
Jill Jones, who was a Prince protege, a muse, who spent essentially the 80s with him and was someone who was a girlfriend of Prince's, was in the film and to me one of the most truthful voices in the film and was someone who discussed in detail an instance where she was abused by Prince physically.
18:32
And by the way, that's not the totality of the story of her with Prince, but you still see how much she loves him.
18:37
Even though she went through an experience with him, that was hard.
18:41
Like a decade of her life wanting more, wanting to be an artist that got to do her own album, wanting to be his exclusive girlfriend or the girlfriend when she always was sort of like, not that.
18:52
It was almost someone, again, when you talk about what it means to be a kept woman, or she even, you know, she refers to him as like a pimp.
19:01
In the movie.

22 MINS LATER

40:58
So what I'm left thinking at the end here, what I want to find out is, now with the benefit of hindsight, would you do this over again?

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