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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Michael’s Jaafar Jackson Wanted to Be a Pro Golfer Until This Fateful Day · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: You might think that Jafar Jackson, who played his uncle
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  Speaker 2: Michael in the biopic Michael, grew up dreaming of following
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  Speaker 2: in his family's footsteps in entertainment, music, performing, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But Jafar grew up envisioning stardom, utilizing a different skill set,
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  Speaker 2: and that's golf.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he tells Variety as a kid, he was only
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  Speaker 3: focused on golf. He started playing around four after his dad, Jermaine,
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  Speaker 3: gave him golf balls to throw before he could even
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  Speaker 3: swing a club.
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  Speaker 4: And he just kind of fell in love with it.
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  Speaker 4: He even trained with a coach weekly.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he joined a young golfer's club. He started to
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  Speaker 5: play in tournaments. He was fully committed, like a full-time
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  Speaker 5: thing every day until one fateful day.
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  Speaker 2: That's when his dad, Brought him to work. Jermaine brought
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  Speaker 2: Jafar to a recording studio. He witnessed the song get
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  Speaker 2: created from scratch out of thin air and wow.
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  Speaker 5: And he was like, that's cooler than golf.
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  Speaker 1: That was it.
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  Speaker 2: That was the turning point that shifted everything he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do with his life. Jafar's next movie, Supermax, with
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  Speaker 2: Will Smith, is now shooting.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.