Magic Johnson hadn’t seen his Apple TV+ docuseries until its premiere
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Magic Johnson says he hadn’t seen his new Apple TV+ docuseries before its world premiere.
Johnson was concerned that he would ask for changes if he saw *They Call Me Magic before completion.
Magic Johnson was worried he would get in the way of production if he saw the docuseries before it was done.
Magic Johnson says that he didn’t watch his new Apple TV+ docuseries until its world premiere for fear of getting too involved in its creation.
Variety reports that Johnson, speaking on the red carpet during the premiere for They Call Me Magic, was concerned that he might cause the series to never air if he got involved. He blamed his perfectionist nature as the reason for avoiding watching it until it was too late to make changes.
With “They Call Me Magic,” though, the Olympic gold medalist admitted that he’d abstained from watching the docuseries before the premiere event because he feared that his perfectionism would lead him to interfere with the process.
“It would never come out,” he laughed. “I’m just a perfectionist. I want everything to be done the right way, so that’s why I didn’t see it. I let the professionals do their job.”
Johnson’s wife, Cookie Johnson, also said that her husband often doesn’t even watch the interviews that he gives. But that was all about to change.
In fact, it was everyone in the Johnson family’s first time watching the footage. “We wanted to wait and be surprised,” Cookie Johnson explained, adding that her husband usually “never watches even any of his interviews. But this time, tonight, he’s going to.”
While we don’t yet know what the Johnson family made of They Call Me Magic, the Apple TV+ docuseries will hit our screens on April 22 — meaning we only have a few short days to wait before we can make our own judgments on it.
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