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Jaafar Jackson Taylor Hill/Getty Images Jaafar Jackson, Michael Jackson’s nephew who starred in the biopic about the King of Pop, has shared his thoughts on the Michael sequel and how he hopes the film will tackle the multiple child sexual abuse allegations against the singer.
While the script for the Michael sequel is still in development, Jaafar told GQ Middle East, “I think the second film will give even more insight from his point of view, because at the end of the day, [the allegations] are always from someone else’s.”
Jaafar Jackson added of the accusations of child sexual abuse against Michael, “It’s someone else’s story. It’s someone else’s idea of what it is, and it’s mainly driven by an agenda. And that’s really the issue we’ve been having as a family – not having Michael’s voice being heard. I think that’s very, very important, especially in the late years.”
Michael, which became the highest-grossing biopic ever at the box office despite the controversies surrounding the singer, ended with the release of Bad. The film initially touched on the 1993 allegations against the singer, but a binding legal clause in the $20 million settlement with one accuser forced producers to scrap the third act, rewrite the script, reshoot, and end the first film in 1987.
It’s unclear whether the sequel will sidestep the 1993 accusations and instead tackle some of the other allegations against Jackson — including those revealed in the documentary Leaving Neverland — or if the child sexual abuse allegations will be totally ignored, with the film instead just focusing on the latter third of Michael’s musical career.
