Michael Premiere, Jaafar Jackson Interview

I remember the very first time when I had a call, you know, with Graham King, the producer. He spoke to me about it. It was so early on, it was a lot to take in, you know, I'd never acted before, I'd never wanted to act, so I had a lot of conflict with it because I wasn't sure if I can really do it or not. So then I got with an acting coach and I really want to learn what is acting, you know, and start there before trying to embody Michael. 

So I did that for about a year and then I started to really, you know, study Michael's videos, his lyrics, everything about him, and that's when I started to embody him. I collected a large archive of footage that I gathered from YouTube, many other websites of all the dancing and even just off-camera, he didn't realize he was on camera, like just him in a conversational setting. And I used that to really immerse myself and dissect everything in that way and then just allow that to kind of channel through me. 

Um, but there's very few memories that I have that I cherish truly and all of them were when I was very young. One of my favorites is when I first saw him on stage performing in New York for the first time, which was the best experience for me.