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The part about This Is Not It was pretty inconclusive, he didn't really answer the question... He has said some things in the past that have made me doubt this whole thing but if you think about it if he or the family didn't act like that, then everyone would think "Michael is alive!" and Michael would have no time to hide and regroup, he would be demanded to come back. That's just my conclusion.
i just feel like crying all over again. MJ..what a beautiful person you are~
Thank you for sharing this again. I like Kenny a lot and I used to go back and forth about where he was in the hoax but I agree, he's saying what he can without giving stuff away. Michael loves illusion. Michael looked great. etc. He's also had some interesting tweets. Blessings.
Thanks for posting the interview. Is it me or does he stress A LIL' TOO MUCH, how 'raw, unintended, the footage of TII was?! :shock: ... how they did NOT plan it ... how all scenes were NOT staged at all. He took every chance of stating how innocent all went ... *shaking heads* For my taste a bit too much.EDIT: To me, he gave it away that this is a hoax :lol:
Q: Have you had any sleep?KO: You know, I haven’t had any sleep for the last few months. I haven’t. During the rehearsals, I worked pretty late hours and then we did the memorial and then we started up on the film and the film was 14 hours a day, seven days a week, every week since we started and then we handed the movie over and it was like mixing.
Q: The rawness accentuates the fact that it was never meant to be seen.KO: We didn’t always turn those cameras on and there were only two of them and sometimes one. You can imagine the complication of trying to tell a story and cut this movie together. There were times where I was on the floor banging and kicking and screaming because we didn’t design this to be shot as a film. We never planned it. There was no script. I didn’t say, ‘And now go in for the close-up and can we do one more take of that?’ That was never part of it.
Q: Were any musical numbers left out because the footage wasn’t there?KO: Yeah, mm hmm, yeah. The day that Michael died, we were waiting for him to come in to block him into Dirty Diana, which was at the end of Dirty Diana, he stepped into an illusion and before your eyes went up in smoke and then suddenly appeared completely on the other side of the stage rising up on the cherry picker and out over to the audience for Beat It. He was really looking forward to it. The night before, he had said to me he was very happy. He saw the dream coming to life on the stage. The only thing he wanted me to say to anybody creatively, dancers, creative team was, ‘I love them. Everybody’s doing a great job. I love you, Kenny. I’ll see you tomorrow. Thank you.’ He left and we were invigorated. We came back that next day and we were all up on the stage really excited working with our illusion makers, working with our technicians. We had our aerialist, Danielle, on the stage and Tony Testa, one of our associate choreographers was standing in for Michael. It was just like we were getting everything ready for him to walk in and step into what was going to be one of his favorite days because he loved illusion. When we discovered that, in fact everything stopped.
Q: How would you like Michael to be remembered as an artist and as a person?KO: It was just that the information wasn’t there and that people were saying that not only did we get to have these final moments with Michael as the artist, but we got to come to know him better than ever before as a man. You really came to appreciate his kindness and his sweetness and his generosity and the wonderful collaborative spirit that he was about and the way that he worked with people, never wanting to offend anyone. My God, if he thought that he embarrassed somebody, it would just knock him to his knees. That’s why you always saw him, even in the deepest frustrating moments for him, he would say, ‘With the love. That’s what the rehearsal’s for’ because he really appreciated us so much. He said to me, ‘Kenny, go out and find the best artists in the world. Invite them to come and join our journey and then let’s inspire them to go to places that they’ve never been before.’ So Michael knew who was in front of him and he had the greatest admiration and respect for everybody. Even if he had a little debate or a disagreement with someone, he never wanted it to get to the place where that person might have thought that he didn’t care for them or that he didn’t respect them.
QuoteQ: Have you had any sleep?KO: You know, I haven’t had any sleep for the last few months. I haven’t. During the rehearsals, I worked pretty late hours and then we did the memorial and then we started up on the film and the film was 14 hours a day, seven days a week, every week since we started and then we handed the movie over and it was like mixing. Is it just me or does it really sound weird how Kenny lines up the rehearsals and the memorial? Like memorial was a part of the rehearsals! You know what I'm trying to say? He talked about the rehearsals and then the memorial and then the film. The rehearsals and the film is the showbiz ok but the memorial? That was supposed to be your best friend's memorial. He didn't even say; "We had rehearsals and then we lost Michael and did the memorial" kind of sentence. There's no emotion there in his sentence. If he lost Michael for real, I'm sure that his sentence would be way so much different and he wouldn't add memorial there between the other showbiz or he would definitely make the sentence different.everlastinglove_MJ wrote: Know what you mean, if Michael was dead for real Kenny would have said: "it's emotionally hard to do the memorial because Michael was my friend, though I had to do this for my friend and it was an honor", or something like that. Kenny didn't say that ... because it wasn't in the script :lol: QuoteQ: The rawness accentuates the fact that it was never meant to be seen.KO: We didn’t always turn those cameras on and there were only two of them and sometimes one. You can imagine the complication of trying to tell a story and cut this movie together. There were times where I was on the floor banging and kicking and screaming because we didn’t design this to be shot as a film. We never planned it. There was no script. I didn’t say, ‘And now go in for the close-up and can we do one more take of that?’ That was never part of it.Is that the reason why there were 8 cameras Kenny? :lol: everlastinglove_MJ wrote: :lol: :lol: if it concerns Michael there'd be a dozen or more cameras, there's an audio video somewhere on this forum with an interview with MJ about how he loves camerasQuoteQ: Were any musical numbers left out because the footage wasn’t there?KO: Yeah, mm hmm, yeah. The day that Michael died, we were waiting for him to come in to block him into Dirty Diana, which was at the end of Dirty Diana, he stepped into an illusion and before your eyes went up in smoke and then suddenly appeared completely on the other side of the stage rising up on the cherry picker and out over to the audience for Beat It. He was really looking forward to it. The night before, he had said to me he was very happy. He saw the dream coming to life on the stage. The only thing he wanted me to say to anybody creatively, dancers, creative team was, ‘I love them. Everybody’s doing a great job. I love you, Kenny. I’ll see you tomorrow. Thank you.’ He left and we were invigorated. We came back that next day and we were all up on the stage really excited working with our illusion makers, working with our technicians. We had our aerialist, Danielle, on the stage and Tony Testa, one of our associate choreographers was standing in for Michael. It was just like we were getting everything ready for him to walk in and step into what was going to be one of his favorite days because he loved illusion. When we discovered that, in fact everything stopped.What exactly does this mean? When they discovered Michael loved illusion, everything stopped? :lol: Ahhh nice clues from Kenny. everlastinglove_MJ wrote: Yes! ... I wanna make a lil triomph dance as well if it's a clue :? "everything stopped" what is Kenny saying? They changed plans, or put the project where they were working on in the fridge and started the hoax=illusion?QuoteQ: How would you like Michael to be remembered as an artist and as a person?KO: It was just that the information wasn’t there and that people were saying that not only did we get to have these final moments with Michael as the artist, but we got to come to know him better than ever before as a man. You really came to appreciate his kindness and his sweetness and his generosity and the wonderful collaborative spirit that he was about and the way that he worked with people, never wanting to offend anyone. My God, if he thought that he embarrassed somebody, it would just knock him to his knees. That’s why you always saw him, even in the deepest frustrating moments for him, he would say, ‘With the love. That’s what the rehearsal’s for’ because he really appreciated us so much. He said to me, ‘Kenny, go out and find the best artists in the world. Invite them to come and join our journey and then let’s inspire them to go to places that they’ve never been before.’ So Michael knew who was in front of him and he had the greatest admiration and respect for everybody. Even if he had a little debate or a disagreement with someone, he never wanted it to get to the place where that person might have thought that he didn’t care for them or that he didn’t respect them.Spreading the truth about Michael, letting people know who he really is. Good job Kenny.Thank you so much for sharing this interview with us. everlastinglove_MJ wrote: You're welcome, PureLove