Date 29/01/2016 - News People
(CNN)With controversy raging over Joseph Fiennes' casting as Michael Jackson in a British TV production, a 1993 video has surfaced of the late singer saying he didn't want a white actor to portray him on screen. Joseph Fiennes to play Michael Jackson in British TV show Fiennes is set to play the pop star in the half-hour comedy "Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon," which centers around a fabled road trip in which Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando tried to get home to Los Angeles from New York after the September 11 terrorist attacks. "That is so stupid," Jackson said. I'm proud to be a black American.
