Joseph Fiennes Michael Jackson

Joseph Fiennes Michael Jackson, Joseph Fiennes understands that some admirers of Michael Jackson will accept their anxiety about him assuming the King of Pop in a British TV movie.

"I'm a white, common guy from London," Fiennes alone told ET of arena the backward music icon. "I'm as abashed as you may be."

The movie, Elizabeth, Michael and Marlon, will air on Sky Arts and is based on an burghal fable that showed up in a May 2011Vanity Fair article. Fiennes says it's a "light tongue-and-cheek look" at a adventure about Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor and Jackson renting a car and demography a alley cruise calm afterwards they were clumsy to bolt a flight out of New York City due to the agitator attacks on September 11, 2001. Brian Cox takes on the role Brando and Stockard Channing will portray Taylor.

"It's affectionate of off the wall, but the autograph is a delight, and the affectionate of alternation amid the three of them is funny, and aswell abounding of pathos," the 45-year-old amateur said of the movie. "It's humans who are so iconic, but aswell can be detached. You know, you can get alone from society. So it's analytical that affectionate of admirable and mad detachment."

While Fiennes acknowledges that he ability accept some criticism for arena an African American, he doesn't anticipate his chase should appear into play. "[Jackson] absolutely had an affair -- a blush affair -- and that's something I do believe," the Shakespeare in Adulation brilliant explained. "He was apparently afterpiece to my blush than his aboriginal color."

He added in aegis of the movie, "It's a ablaze ball look. It's not in any way malicious. It's in fact endearing."Fiennes was a "huge fan" of Jackson if he was a kid, and says he now has a new acknowledgment for the music legend. "The added I in fact looked at Michael," he gushed, "The added I affectionate of fell in adulation with him."

ET has accomplished out to associates of the Jackson ancestors for animadversion on the accessible TV movie. Meanwhile, Fiennes is active announcement his accessible film, Risen, which hits theaters Feb. 19.

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