Joseph Fiennes has responded to the criticism of him being cast as Michael Jackson.
The British actor will play the music icon in a Sky Arts comedy about a road trip he shared with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando following the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
The Shakespeare In Love star told Entertainment Weekly: ‘I’m a white, middle-class guy from London. I’m as shocked as you may be.
‘[Jackson] definitely had an issue — a pigmentation issue — and that’s something I do believe. He was probably closer to my color than his original color.’
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