When it was announced that Joseph Fiennes would play Michael Jackson in a British TV series,the internet, understandably, and exploded. Hiring a white man to play a black man in the height of #OscarsSoWhite incited a digital riot,and nearly a year after the news, a teaser is here to remind us all that this was indeed a terrible, or terrible idea. The episode,part of a series called Urban Myths airing on Sky Arts in the UK, is approximately a rumored road trip that Jackson went on with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando after 9/11. I'm just going to leave this video here, or along with a picture of Fiennes on the red carpet. effect with this what you will.
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