Jaafar Jackson has fond memories of 'prankster' uncle Michael Jackson

The 30-year-old actor portrayed the late King of Pop in the Michael biopic that proved hugely successful at the box office last year and reflected on his fond memories of the Thriller hitmaker, who died at the age of 50 in 2009.

Jaafar, the son of Michael's brother Jermaine Jackson, told GQ Middle East: "For me, it was similar to when I saw my other uncles... just a full prankster, jokester, playing hide-and-seek.

"It wasn't always often, but during holidays or family days, we'd try and get the whole family together.

"And then having time to be able to go out to Neverland and see him there. Michael was incredibly busy... he was always travelling. But the days where we would all get together, (those were) the most fun days."

Jaafar had been attempting to forge a music career of his own before being cast in Michael, but claims that playing his uncle on the big screen has satisfied that urge.

He explained: "Being on stage and performing those songs with his dance, vocabulary, with his mindset... I don't have the mindset of wanting to do that for myself because I don't think I would be satisfied.

"I experienced the best I could experience as an artist on stage as Michael. Me doing it as Jaafar would just feel weird."

The Michael biopic – which ends with King of Pop performing at Wembley Stadium on his Bad World Tour in 1988 - faced criticism for failing to address the allegations of child sexual abuse against the Billie Jean singer but Jaafar has confirmed that the sequel will address the allegations from Michael's "point of view".

He said: "I think the second film will give even more insight from his point of view, because at the end of the day, (the allegations) are always from someone else's.

"It's someone else's story. It's someone else's idea of what it is, and it's mainly driven by an agenda. And that's really the issue we've been having as a family – not having Michael's voice being heard. I think that's very, very important, especially in the late years."

Jaafar thinks that the second film will give audiences a deeper insight into Michael's character.

"So you get the idea of who he was before he had all the success and became the icon that people are familiar with, you understand who he was as a human being first, because at the end of the day, that's who he was in the 90s until he passed.

"He never changed that purity, that sense of always wanting to find the good in other people. And no matter all the stuff he went through, how he was treated, what things were said about him, he never stopped treating people with kindness.

"He never stopped believing in and wanting to look for the good in people... even though he was broken, his heart still stayed the same... I hope this is felt in the second movie."