Michael Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson will play the “King of Pop” in the upcoming biopic “Michael.” “I’m humbled and honored to bring my Uncle Michael’s story to life,” Jackson wrote on Monday in an Instagram post.
debuted, returning some of the shine to the singer. The production, which steered away from more fraught moments of Jackson’s life, racked up four Tony awards, including Myles Frost’s best actor in a musical for his role as Jackson. It hasJaafar Jackson’s role will be his first in a major film. In 2019, he released a music video,Involved in music since he was 12, Jackson has said he grew up with dreams of becoming a professional golfer, but the pull of his family’s legacy proved too strong.
In the same interview, he acknowledged that music is “what I was born into” but said he hoped to forge his own identity: “The more music I release with time, and the more I tour the world, people will be able to recognize me for who I am and what I create.”
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