Joseph Fiennes

  The episode of British TV series “Urban Myths” featuring Michael Jackson played by white actor Joseph Fiennes will never see the light of day. British broadcaster Sky Arts has cancelled the episode of the series after a trailer showing white actor Joseph Fiennes playing the King of Pop sparked outrage, including a rebuke from […]

Paris Jackson has now weighed in on the outrage over white actor Joseph Fiennes portraying her late father Michael Jackson in a British TV series. The daughter responded on Twitter when asked her thoughts about the casting. “I’m so incredibly offended by it, as i’m sure plenty of people are as well, and it honestly […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Joseph Fiennes is defending himself in the wake of criticism after being cast as Michael Jackson in an upcoming half-hour TV special, acknowledging the topic is “sensitive” but never intending it to be divisive. The white actor will play the King of Pop in the upcoming Sky Arts comedy “Elizabeth, Michael, […]

Joseph Fiennes may have upset many people when they heard he was cast to play Michael Jackson for an upcoming film, but the white actor – to no one’s surprise – has apparently won the approval of Stacey Dash. Weighing in on the backlash Fiennes has received for being selected to play Jackson half-hour British […]

After news that a White actor was cast to play Michael Jackson on a British TV comedy series surfaced this week, an old interview featuring the King of Pop himself has confirmed what we already knew: White actors shouldn’t portray Black people – period. It was announced Wednesday that Joseph Fiennes – of Shakespeare in Love and American Horror Story: […]

LONDON (AP) — 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 […]