Joseph Fiennes will star as Michael Jackson in a one-off TV comedy
set to broadcast later this year a casting decision that has added
fuel to a raging debate about opportunities for non-white actors in
movies and TV.
The white British star of "Shakespeare in Love" plays the black King
of Pop in "Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon," alongside Stockard Channing
as Elizabeth Taylor and Brian Cox as Marlon Brando.
The script is based on a possibly fictitious road trip the three
stars are rumored to have made in an attempt to leave New York after the
Sept. 11 attacks.
Sky Arts, which commissioned the drama, confirmed the casting and
said Wednesday that the show is in post production and is due to air in
2016. The channel said it was "part of a series of comedies about
unlikely stories from arts and cultural history."
Jackson had vitiligo, a condition that causes patchy loss of skin
pigmentation, and his complexion lightened dramatically as he grew
older. He died in 2009 aged 50.
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