White actor Joseph Fiennes regrets controversial choice to play Michael Jackson and calls it 'a foul mistake

• Joseph Fiennes backtracks on his choice to play Michael Jackson after initially defending it.
• The white British actor lightened his pores and skin for the position and wore a prosthetic nostril.
• In a brand new interview, Fiennes mentioned individuals had been “proper to be upset” and the position was a “unhealthy mistake.”

British actor Joseph Fiennes has a brand new stance on his controversial choice to play Michael Jackson in a 2017 episode of UK TV present “City Myths.”

The episode, which was set to air on Sky Arts, centered on a literal city fable that mentioned after the 9/11 assaults in New York Metropolis, Michael Jackson, Marlon Brando, and Elizabeth Taylor hopped right into a automotive and drove out of the town.

When the trailer was launched in 2017, it confirmed that Fiennes had lightened his pores and skin and wore a prosthetic nostril for the position, a choice broadly criticized by followers, critics, and even Jackson’s household.

Finneas mentioned in a current interview with The Guardian that the choice to play the King of Pop was a “unhealthy mistake.”

“I believe persons are completely proper to be upset,” Fiennes started. “And it was a fallacious choice. Completely.”

“However you understand, it got here at a time the place there was a motion and a shift, and that was good, and it was, you understand, a foul name. A nasty mistake,” he added, noting later: “And, simply to say, I requested the broadcaster to tug it. And there have been some fairly hefty discussions, however in the end individuals made the best selection.”

When the trailer was launched in 2017, Insider’s Jason Guerrasio reported that the clip appeared “bizarre” and that it was “uncomfortable to see Fiennes taking part in a legendary Black singer.”

Paris Jackson, the late singer’s daughter, wrote on Twitter that the trailer “truthfully makes me need to vomit.”

Fiennes’ feedback come after the white actor initially defended his choice to play Jackson, who died in 2009 on the age of fifty.

He informed Leisure Tonight that Jackson “undoubtedly had a difficulty — a pigmentation problem —and that is one thing I do imagine. He was most likely nearer to my shade than his authentic shade.”

Though he did admit, “I am a white, middle-class man from London. I am as shocked as you could be.”