Lance Bass braved great feelings and fiscal cataclysm at the hands of Lou Pearlman — music make, director and mastermind behind* NSYNC. But despite being disclosed by a boy he considered a father figure, Bass accepts some good come back here his luck. “He ended up accompanying us all together more, ” he told PEOPLE. “Look at the Backstreet Boys, right? We never spoke to them. We were always afraid of them. Now after the facts of the case, we’re all really good friends because they went through something that we can only relate to — it really bonded all of us.”

Bass said he even want me talking to Justin Timberlake regularly, although you won’t insure the onetime* NSYNC member in Bass’s latest cinema job but rather his mother, Lynn Harless. “I didn’t even ask him. I knew he would probably say no. But I actually demanded his mom.“

The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story is a documentary piece on the famed boy strip impresario that’s already garnered buzz at South by Southwest. The film tracks Pearlman’s story from his childhood in Queens to the dizzying meridians of managing mega-bands* NSYNC, the Backstreet Boys, LFO and O-Town. The film also recounts his fall from grace after it was discovered that he perpetrated one of the most important Ponzi plans in American history and victimized earnings from the hard-working, globally successful ordinances he managed.

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The doc — which is in limited theatrical drains in Los Angeles and New York City and will air on YouTube Originals starting April 3 — includes interviews with Bass and his former* NSYNC bandmates JC Chasez and Chris Kirkpatrick, as well as AJ McLean of the Backstreet Boys, Ashley Parker Angel of O-Town and Aaron Carter.

The film’s director, Aaron Kunkel, told PEOPLE he wishes to draw a nuanced picture of Pearlman, who died in prison in 2016. Even after his death, many who knew the sound Svengali remain conflicted about his gift. “Hopefully the cinema shown in the involved feelings that everybody in his life had for him. That it wasn’t just,’ This guy’s a being and he took this fund from the americans and that’s that.’ It’s a lot more complicated because he was a real being in the world.”

The filmmaker and Bass wanted to show why Pearlman was a charming representation to these musicians and their families and how he gained their trust. “It was a really interesting journeying. That’s why we wanted to talk to parties from all different parts of their own lives, ” Kunkel justified. “Not merely the Backstreet Boys and* NSYNC, but all those others, some you may have never heard of. And they likewise have truly different and unique experiences with him. We wanted to make sure you got the full picture.”

Kunkel credits Bass for persuading so many parties from Pearlman’s life to open up and participate in the project. “We went everybody in the movie because they trusted Lance to be able to tell it; to protect their fibs and tell it the right way and not make a make fragment, ” he said.

Not all of the musicians under Pearlman’s wing felt he had wronged them. In the film, Aaron Carter goes psychological is speaking to how Pearlman was like a father to him. “I don’t know if it is still denial, ” Bass said at the film’s Q& A post-premiere at SXSW in Austin, Texas, on March 13, “but he feels he owes everything to Lou.”

Some have questioned why the men of* NSYNC didn’t realize Pearlman was taking advantage of them at the time. “When you’re in it you exactly don’t see it at all, ” Bass clarified. “And you’re not looking for it. I think that was a really good tactic by — maintaining every hour booked for years. We didn’t have a day off.”

“That was why he deterred the two parties apart from each other, ” Kunkel supplemented, “because he knew that if they started talking to each other, they could start comparing notes.”

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Bass remains disappointed that Pearlman never rationalized for his misdemeanours, even after he was sentenced to 25 times in federal prison after asserting guilty to charges of money laundering, conspiracy and forgery. “I didn’t need an’ I’m sorry’ to me, but I just wanted him to is responsible for and admit,’ You know what, I did mess up.’ I genuinely wanted to see a little sorrow in him, but you are able tell until his day of reckoning, he was just a true-life narcissist that is actually, genuinely believed in the things that he was saying, ” the vocalist echoed. “I think he contemplated the nations of the world owed him a lot.”

The documentary isn’t all night. In fact, there are instants of levity and humor, plus a great deal of footage supporters will appreciate of* NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys in their heyday. Bass hopes that those who been an increase in the ’9 0s and lived through the epoch will enjoy the cinema “because it’s a storey that they thought they knew and lived through in the music. It brings you back to that nostalgic time.” Furthermore, he hopes the documentary will be used as a cautionary fib and persuade the public “to be a skeptic in everything we do these days. You always have to keep one look out on what’s happening.”

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