You don’t have to wonder how the late music icon Michael Jackson would feel about this week’s news that a white actor would be portraying him in a movie. In 1993, he called the notion “stupid,” “ridiculous” and “horrifying.”On Tuesday, January 26, news broke that British actor Joseph Fiennes had been cast to play Michael Jackson in a made-for-TV movie about on an alleged road trip in which Michael and movie stars Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando tried to drive to Los Angeles from New York after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.The casting of a white man to play the African-American pop star raised a few eyebrows. Judging by Oprah’s 1993 interview with Michael, he wouldn’t have been too happy about the news. During their intimate conversation, Oprah asked the King of Pop how he felt about a recent story that he allegedly wanted a white boy to play him in a Pepsi commercial.“That is so stupid,” Michael said. “That is the most ridiculous, horrifying story I’ve ever heard. It’s crazy. I mean, number one, it’s my face as a child in the commercial, me when I was little. Why would I want a white child to play me? I’m a black American. I am proud to be a black American. I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride for who I am and dignity.”Michael also addresses some of the rumors that swirled around him toward the latter part of his life, in particular the speculation that he was lightening the color of his skin because he no longer wanted to be black.
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