VIDEO: 'He was about as white as me' Joseph Fiennes defends arena Michael Jackson

UPDATE: Joseph Fiennes allege out

"I’m a white, common guy from London. I’m as abashed as you may be, " Fiennes told Entertainment TonightWeekly over his casting as Michael Jackson.

"Michael Jackson absolutely had an affair — a blush affair — and that’s something I do believe. He was apparently afterpiece to my blush than his aboriginal color."

Fiennes aswell told The Wrap that the filmmakers casting a white amateur because they didn’t accept the account to pay for prosthetics.

"I was like, ‘Wait a minute, I anticipate someone’s got this wrong. I mean, really?’” Fiennes said. "The account was too low to do prosthetics or anything, so it actually is aboveboard makeup. And it’s absolutely saying, ‘Look, audiences, it’s tongue-in-cheek.’

"No one’s aggravating to do an exact impersonation, but it’s just a faculty of the fun of the alley trip. If it did happen, maybe it happened like this. That’s all it is, a blithe take."

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