You’ll never believe who’s playing Michael Jackson in a new movie (activist, Indiana)

[epliny]

As usual, turnabout isn't fair play in the liberal world!

(I haven't looked but wasn't there a thread on here about black actors replacing historically white roles?)

Fans of the Gloved One want the white actor cast to play Michael Jackson in a new British TV movie to “Beat It.”

“Because we aren’t whitewashed enough in Hollywood, apparently,” read a tweet posted on BET’s Twitter page on Wednesday.
“They seriously couldn’t find a black actor to play Michael Jackson?,” tweeted DeRay Mckesson, an American civil rights activist and leader in the “Black Lives Matter” movement.

You’ll never believe who’s playing Michael Jackson in a new movie | Page Six



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[The Dark Enlightenment]

They would prefer a black actor in "whiteface" for the role?

the plot of the film, which is based on a 2011 Vanity Fair report in which Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando allegedly went on a road trip from New York to Ohio in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
“I got the script the other day,” he told WENN. “It’s a comedy.

I would watch that.

[Mason3000]

Only in America can a poor Black boy from Gary, Indiana grow up to be a rich White woman from Santa Barbara, California.

[The Dark Enlightenment]

Actually, I don't know if Fiennes is white enough to play 2001 Michael Jackson.

[Mathguy]

When I opened the thread I thought it was going to be Jerod from Subway.

[El Nox]

I remember reading something about a 'spotted pony'. Did the casting director take that into consideration? Enquiring minds want to know.


El Nox

[camaro69]

Maybe a younger MJ, but where would they find a black actor who's white to play MJ after age 40ish.

[Oldglory]

Having a white man play MJ is as ludicrous as that black girl playing the role of Annie awhile back. They can't find a light skinned black to play him?

[odanny]

Conservatives get upset about the dumbest things.

[burdell]

Big deal, a black guy's playing Thomas Jefferson on Broadway.

That'll probably get conservative knickers in a twist, eh?