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Exclusive Interview: Kenny Ortega
The director of Michael Jackson's This Is It talks Michael, the movie and more!
October 23, 2009
By: Hillary Atkin
Fandango Film Commentator
Director Kenny Ortega
It’s a movie made with footage that was never intended for the big screen—only for music legend Michael Jackson and his inner circle as they prepared for a series of sold-out London concerts. Now, audiences all over the world are clamoring to see the highly anticipated Michael Jackson’s This Is It (opening Oct. 28 from Columbia Pictures for a two-week run).
The film captures the final days of the entertainment icon’s life before his shocking, sudden death at age 50. For director Kenny Ortega, finishing the movie in record time before Jackson’s favorite holiday of Halloween is a fitting tribute to his late friend.
Ortega—the auteur behind High School Musical, Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds and Dirty Dancing’s choreographer--sat down with Fandango for an exclusive conversation about the world’s first look at Michael Jackson’s last performances.
Fandango: You’ve been one of Michael’s closest collaborators in the past two decades, working with him on the Dangerous and HIStory tours. What was your relationship like?
Ortega: We had a great trust and we had great fun together as conceptual partners, creating and wrestling down ideas. We shared a lot of the same interests: music, arts, ideas and entertainment. We were never without something to talk about. It was a relationship made in heaven. Every time there was an experience with him, I learned something in the process.
Fandango: What was different about This Is It?
Ortega: The principal difference was that in the past, Michael was on tour and had albums to promote. This time his reasons were different. He was working on an album and was going to do new material. He was more involved than he ever was before. He was invested in growth and development.
Fandango: What was it like working with Michael going into the 50-show London engagement? How did he feel about the tour?
Ortega: It was inspirational. I saw Michael take the reins and kick it into a new gear. He was going to do it, and it was a moment of great triumph. The last night he talked about how the dream was there, how happy he was with the show and with everyone involved. Needless to say, it was devastating that Michael was not able to fulfill something that meant so much to him.
Fandango: Did you think he was up to the challenge?
Ortega: He said it all the time. He says it in the movie. There were times I questioned him: was he really intending to do this? I told him, “You’ve got to stay healthy. You’ve got to eat, you’ve got to build up your strength and immunity.” It was as great of a concern to mount a brilliant show as it was to make sure we delivered him capable of doing one.
Fandango: How did you react when you heard about Michael’s sudden passing, just hours after you had last seen him?
Ortega: Disbelief at first. It was surreal, unreal. It was like my insides felt like a 10-story building collapsing. It was difficult to comprehend that we lost someone we loved so much and had such great importance to his children, his fans, his family and the world of music. How could this happen? We were almost there, and he had an opportunity to tour the world again, one more time, to say thank you and take the final curtain call. It was deep and dark and sad.
Fandango: What was the original intention with the many hours of footage that you shaped into the movie?
Ortega: We had more than 80 hours of footage, including 10 original films that were to be scenic backdrops, and stand-alone films interspersed throughout. We had sets being built, interviews with talent, press conferences. Then we had magical footage shot with one or two cameras that was a reference tool for [associate director and choreographer] Travis Payne and [musical director] Michael Bearden. That helped us piece together a mosaic that shows Michael's intentions.
Fandango: Michael kept coming up with more ideas for This Is It. How did you respond?
Ortega: Sometimes he'd call at 3 a.m. to throw ideas at me. I told him to go to sleep, stop, the show’s big enough. He was the most imaginative and inspired artist of our time. I said, “Michael, if we put one more thing in the truss, we'll create a weight problem that puts everyone in danger,” and he said, “Okay, we’ll stop.”
Fandango: But you fed off each other’s energy and sense of humor, like when he told you that God channeled good ideas to him, and that if he wasn’t there to receive them, they would go to Prince.
Ortega: It was tongue in cheek. He was working on a record and show ideas and I asked what he was channeling. He said, “I’m getting blessings coming through me—melodies, words, songs, ideas.” I said, “Can’t you make a pact with your higher power and put all this on a back shelf?” He winked at me.
Fandango: What were some of his concepts?
Ortega: He was calling me and saying, I want Victoria Falls. Michael, I said, it’s in Africa, one of the seven wonders of the world. He wanted it in 3-D coming through the screen. It was a spectacular idea. “You want all the wonders of the world, everything, don’t you,?” I asked him. “Yes, I do.”
Fandango: Given all that intensity, describe his work ethic.
Ortega: It was always creatively overwhelming. He was really invested, and put in many conceptual hours. He always did the work. He was a perfectionist.
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