Joseph Fiennes to Play Michael Jackson in 9/11 Drama

[Maximus]

I understand this movie is a low-budget, parody based on a fictional story. But under no circumstances should a non-black actor play a Black person in a movie. I don't care what the person looked like.

This is disrespectful to MJ(who identified as a Black man to the day he died), his legacy, and to Black people in general. To those claiming it is so impossible to find a Black actor to play post-vitiligo MJ, take a look at one of MJ's impersonators, a Black man named E'Casanova.

His "after" appearance is the result of makeup and prosthetics, that's it. Filmmakers can easily find a Black man to do this role, they just prefer not to for obvious reasons. I would think the Black people here would be highly cognizant of that.

 

[dish lowry]

weird movie about a mexican mj impersonator

 

[the cac mamba]

How they gonna leave Flex out?

i still dont get the outrage here: is THIS ^^^ what people wanted a black actor to do?

the fukkin movie is set in 2001 THAT is what he looked like

its not thriller michael

if they're gonna slather a black actor with makeup to completely cover up the fact that hes black, i guess i dont see the significance of him being black in the first place

 

[Conz]

still can't believe this is being panned... could you imagine a black actor being cast and then put in ridiculous white face? which black actor has a post plastic surgery MJ nose? a white actor has to play him

 

[basketball reasons]

There's really no way to portray a post-Bad era MJ and have it be anything but a horrible joke

Thats not an example of good makeup breh.

still can't believe this is being panned... could you imagine a black actor being cast and then put in ridiculous white face? which black actor has a post plastic surgery MJ nose? a white actor has to play him

Because they look alike

yall really dont understand what a good makeup artist can do

 

[Conz]

Thats not an example of good makeup breh.

Because they look alike

yall really dont understand what a good makeup artist can do

yea i do. a good makeup artist will make that dude look just like michael jackson.

 

[basketball reasons]

yea i do. a good makeup artist will make that dude look just like michael jackson.

or they could get a black man and let him eat

they can get a white dude who has ample opportunities afforded to him in Hollywood in a bunch of makeup and get him looking like MJ, or they could get an under represented black man who has to fight it out with other black folks for the few black roles there are in the industry in the role of the greatest black musician of all time.

Cant believe this site is caping for this shyt

 

[Conz]

2001 Michael Jackson was not a black man.

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

Cacs gonna a cac

 

[basketball reasons]

2001 Michael Jackson was not a black man.

so y'all gonna ignore the medical FACT that MJ had Vitiligo?

you know more about mj's identity than MJ himself, huh

 

[Conz]

lol what the fukk are you arguing? Michael Jackson was fukkin white in 2001. I know he had a skin condition (alegedly) I know he was an African American man... but as far as what literal color he was? he was fukkin white. He looked white. His skin was white.

 

[dish lowry]

mj's autopsy report
http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Celebs/jackson, michael_report.pdf

half a dozen false teeth, lots of arthritis, and permanent eye & lip makeup

and he barely weighed over 100 pounds.

what a fruitcake

 

[Manuel Hot Pepper Lopez]

mj's autopsy report
http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Celebs/jackson, michael_report.pdf

half a dozen false teeth, lots of arthritis, and permanent eye & lip makeup

and he barely weighed over 100 pounds.

what a fruitcake

Report says he was 135 and had all his natural teeth

 

[darryl]

S

mj's autopsy report
http://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Celebs/jackson, michael_report.pdf

half a dozen false teeth, lots of arthritis, and permanent eye & lip makeup

and he barely weighed over 100 pounds.

what a fruitcake

Cac

 

[darryl]

The more i think about it i really don't care anymore. This shyt looks like a parody like scary movie or someshyt. Not a real life. Big budget biopic. This a tv movie