Jackson’s daughter ready for film debut

“If I die tomorrow, always remember what I told you,” King of Pop Michael Jackson told his daughter Paris.

In her first TV interview the 13-year-old was revealing how her father encouraged her acting talent.

Paris, who is working on her movie debut, said she wanted to act from a young age, and revealed how she initially thought it was stupid when her father forced his children to wear face masks.

She took to acting because her dad was in the (1988) movie Moonwalker.

“I knew he could sing really well, but I didn’t know he could act,”she said. “I saw Moonwalker and I went ‘Wow, I want to be just like him’.”

“We did acting together, he would give us little scenarios, and say: ‘In this scene you’re gonna cry, and I’d cry on the spot,” she told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres.

Paris, dressed in black with a black hat reminiscent of her father, remembered how she and her siblings Prince Michael and Blanket had to wear face masks when they were young, to protect their identity.

“I’m like, this is stupid, why am I wearing a mask?” she said, but added: “I realised... the older I got, he only tried to protect us.”

And she recalled: “He said, ‘If I die tomorrow, always remember what I told you.’ And I took his advice, and I remembered everything he told me.”

Paris, who was 11 when Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, will star in a live action/animated film called Lundon’s Bridge and the Three Keys, based on a famous book series for teenagers.

Her movie debut news comes after a tough few months for the Jackson family, as the star’s doctor Conrad Murray stood trial for involuntary manslaughter. He was convicted and sentenced to the maximum four years last month.”