Pink: parent, performer, pacesetter

Director Michael Gracey on shooting Pink for his new documentary, and how her eight-year-old daughter often stole the show

Michael Gracey is obsessed with Bollywood. Speaking over a video call from New Zealand, the Australian director says he grew up watching Akshay Kumar films. “Bollywood is the greatest example of musical storytelling.” Gracey should know, having directed the multiple-award winning The Greatest Showman and his latest documentary, P!nk: All I Know So Far. “I am passionate about musical storytelling as a narrative form,” he says. “The way I put sequences together is music driven, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it is a musical. Films such as Cinema Paradiso or The Mission, or Tarantino’s films, are music driven but are not musicals; people are not breaking into song.”