Name: Michael Featurette – A Conversation with Jaafar Jackson (2026)
Uploaded: 2026-03-19T16:39:12.000Z
Duration: 2 min 1 s
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I knew how challenging this would be to take on playing Michael Jackson, and it was not easy.

You can't just go through a Michael Jackson move casually.

I met with Rich and Tone, who are Michael's choreographers, and

we were wondering, can Jafar really do this?

Can he really do the most iconic moves the world has seen land like this?

I love challenges, and I wanted to prove to myself, my family, and the filmmakers that I.

That control of the weight shift, the smoother it's gonna look.

I started to rehearse for hours and hours upon hours until one single move was right.

Dancing until my feet would bleed or them go numb.

There's so many times I would wake up sore.

Should I just take a break and let the body relax?

Then the other part of my mind would be like, no.

He was rehearsing all the way up to the moment we started filming.

I remember looking in the mirror right before going on stage.

wardrobe and had a couple moments to myself just saying, like, wow, I'm really here.

It's time to go out there and put on the best show ever.