Team "Michael" is moonwalking on eggshells in the weeks leading up to the movie's release.
Directed by Antoine Fuqua ("Training Day"), the Michael Jackson biopic (in theaters April 24) stars his nephew Jaafar Jackson as the late King of Pop, who died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication in 2009 at age 50. Colman Domingo and Nia Long play the singer’s parents, Joe and Katherine Jackson, while Miles Teller portrays lawyer John Branca.
But the film’s distributor isn't showing the movie to journalists yet, and the cast is only participating in very limited interviews – understandable, given all the controversy that has already swirled around the long-gestating project.
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