Controversy over white actor playing MJ in new 911 comedy show.

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12 hours ago, PartySick said:

Hmm reminds me of the movie Jermaine oversaw where they told about Michael's life (back in the early 2000's) and had the same black actor play him from the Off the Wall days to the case in 2003...they painted the black dude white about midway through the movie...

Michael was lightskinned in his later years so if that's the time that they're portraying, a white guy would probably be the best bet  if it's before that, get a nice black gentleman to do it. It's that simple.

Edit: Looked up Joseph sine E's site won't load. His skin is literally darker than Michael's was in 2001. :fail:

 

12 hours ago, Haroon said:

His features were more "white" than "black" later in his life so it makes sense that someone with more similar features plays him if they're playing him at that time  

I saw on the news that apparently MJ told Oprah Winfrey that he did not want a white actor to play him.

http://www.eonline.com/news/734628/michael-jackson-once-told-oprah-winfrey-he-d-never-want-a-white-actor-to-play-him

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I swear it's like people are digging to find something to complain about. MJ was white for most of his adult life. People need to stop ring offended over every little thing. The movie takes place in 2001 when he was already living as a white individual due to his skin bleaching. Get a grip people and stop getting offended over every damn little thing that happens. There are so many damn issues in the world and this is why people lost their collective crap over? Ridiculous. 

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I think you are going to be hard pressed to make any film with a Michael Jackson character in it and not run into some sort of controversy. A fantastic musician and dancer, certainly, but he was a bit eccentric at times. In terms of skin color, you could probably argue that technically he was white later in life due to losing skin pigment, but he may have identified still as a black man. I have no idea what his wishes would be now or what the best decision would be. It's tricky role even without the skin color issue. 

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18 minutes ago, LoveandMagic said:

I think you are going to be hard pressed to make any film with a Michael Jackson character in it and not run into some sort of controversy. A fantastic musician and dancer, certainly, but he was a bit eccentric at times. In terms of skin color, you could probably argue that technically he was white later in life due to losing skin pigment, but he may have identified still as a black man. I have no idea what his wishes would be now or what the best decision would be. It's tricky role even without the skin color issue. 

watch this

 

 

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1 hour ago, VampireHeart said:

watch this

 

 

My internet connection is crap right now, all that's popping up is an error screen, can you give me the summary?

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10 minutes ago, LoveandMagic said:

My internet connection is crap right now, all that's popping up is an error screen, can you give me the summary?

They're talking about tabloid lies. And Oprah mentions a story that Michael wanted little white boy to play him in a Pepsi commercial and he says it's one of the most ridiculous things. "It's my face as a child in a commercial, why would I want to... I'm a black American, I'm a proud black American, it's like you'd want Orient person to play you as a child, it doesn't make sense..." and then they continue to talk about his skin condition, Vitiligo and how he uses makeup to cover it up, not because he wants to be white. 

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On 1/29/2016 at 9:12 PM, VampireHeart said:

They're talking about tabloid lies. And Oprah mentions a story that Michael wanted little white boy to play him in a Pepsi commercial and he says it's one of the most ridiculous things. "It's my face as a child in a commercial, why would I want to... I'm a black American, I'm a proud black American, it's like you'd want Orient person to play you as a child, it doesn't make sense..." and then they continue to talk about his skin condition, Vitiligo and how he uses makeup to cover it up, not because he wants to be white. 

Oh, okay. Thanks for sharing. Sounds like an interesting interview.

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Well MJ was white 

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1 minute ago, CurlyBae said:

Well MJ was white 

He actually had skin disorder, which he covered with makeup.

 

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But it makes sense tho. Finding a good actor with MJ's exact condition won't be easy. 

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11 minutes ago, VampireHeart said:

He actually had skin disorder, which he covered with makeup.

 

Umm he looks NOTHING like the guy on the right that has the disorder..Actually a teacher of mine has that skin disorder and it can't be even covered well with makeup. MJ doesn't look black AT ALL in that pic.He just looks red at some places.... TO ME it's obvious that he wanted to become white or smth...And we can't trust what he says because he said that he never had a face surgery in an interview 

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Did they miss what Michael looked like in 2001?

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He played Voldemort who didn't have a nose so he might pull this off 

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10 minutes ago, CurlyBae said:

Umm he looks NOTHING like the guy on the right that has the disorder..Actually a teacher of mine has that skin disorder and it can't be even covered well with makeup. MJ doesn't look black AT ALL in that pic.He just looks red at some places.... TO ME it's obvious that he wanted to become white or smth...And we can't trust what he says because he said that he never had a face surgery in an interview 

 

Are you his doctor or something? Do you have access to his medical files?

He's not suppose to look like the guy on the right, it's just an example of disorder, there are different stages and that person doesn't try to cover it up. Is your teacher black who has that disorder? How can you use him as example, when MJ's wealth obvioisly gave him access to best doctors and makeup artists? He just denied few surgeries in that video, he didn't say he never had any face surgery, he just had nose done at that time. 

Here's more clear if you zoom in

read how it progressed

http://itsjustdesire.tumblr.com/post/106899499465/i-feel-kind-of-embarrassed-asking-this-but-i-am

 

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35 minutes ago, CurlyBae said:

Umm he looks NOTHING like the guy on the right that has the disorder..Actually a teacher of mine has that skin disorder and it can't be even covered well with makeup. MJ doesn't look black AT ALL in that pic.He just looks red at some places.... TO ME it's obvious that he wanted to become white or smth...And we can't trust what he says because he said that he never had a face surgery in an interview 

Actually is quite obvious that he did have the disease from the pictures. He may have later bleached his skin in order to just get rid of the white and black spots. Also he did say to Oprah that he had nose surgery, he did not deny it.