The Banned Prince Documentary: Director Ezra Edelman (Finally) Speaks

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The best documentary filmmaker in America spent nearly five years of his life making a nine-hour masterpiece for Netflix. Which has now, officially, been cancelled. In his first sit-down interview about "The Book of Prince," director Ezra Edelman seeks catharsis — if not closure — in the battle for the truth and control over the life story of one of the biggest control freaks ever. Prince was a shape-shifter who lived and died as a mystery. So why won't his estate lift the veil? And when it comes to celebrities, what does "public interest" really mean? Previously on PTFO: Pablo and Wesley Morris Watched the Prince Doc You're Not Allowed to See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qi6x3QF-v8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre. And today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.7	I'm like, this is a gift. A nine hour treatment about an artist that like it was, by the way, fucking brilliant.
0:15.6	Everything about who you believe he is is in this movie. You get to bathe in his genius.
0:20.3	Yeah. And yet you also have to confront his humanity. is in this movie. You get to bathe in his genius. Yeah.
0:23.2	And yet you also have to confront his humanity.
0:24.5	Right after this ad.
0:42.8	You're listening to Draft King's Network. Are we starting now? Of course. Of course. We're in it.
0:45.1	And now I, maybe I need a shot at the killer.
0:49.2	Ezra Adelman, do you want to explain why you're here?
0:51.4	No. You can explain.
0:53.9	I, I will. Why am I here? Yeah. why you're here? No. You can explain. I...
0:54.4	I...
0:55.0	Why am I here?
0:56.7	Yeah.
0:57.7	Why am I here?
0:58.6	Well, there's a variety headline that I just want to read.
1:03.5	That's why I'm here?
1:04.9	Quote, controversial Prince Netflix documentary will not be released.
1:10.3	Estate is free to create new project.
1:12.8	This is from February 6th, 2025. Oh, that's why I'm here, right. Yes. Um, yeah, fun.
1:23.6	So when Ezra and I sat down in our studio to record this episode, nobody had ever heard him talking about his controversial Prince Netflix documentary, as Variety put it, into a microphone.
1:36.6	Which is also completely unsurprising to anybody who knows Ezra.
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