Comedy With White Actor Joseph Fiennes As Michael Jackson Pulled - News Summed Up

Comedy With White Actor Joseph Fiennes As Michael Jackson Pulled


British TV channel Sky Arts announced Friday that it was dropping a controversial “Urban Myths” episode featuring white actor Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson. The 30-minute comedy, titled “Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon,” revolved around a road trip that Jackson was alleged to have taken with Elizabeth Taylor (Stockard Channing) and Marlon Brando (Brian Cox) after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. Sky Arts wrote on Twitter that it made the move “in light of the concerns expressed by Michael Jackson’s immediate family.”A trailer of the show premiered Tuesday, prompting Jackson’s daughter Paris to later say on Twitter she was “incredibly offended” by it and made her “want to vomit.”This is a snippet of what Paris Jackson saw (Sky Arts deleted the preview on YouTube):


Source: Huffington Post January 13, 2017 11:15 UTC



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