Here are some of the best Twitter responses to a first look at the white-washed portrayal of MJ.

Angela Bassett, who portrayed Michael Jackson's mother in a tv movie said Joseph Fiennes can play MJ if she's cast as Liz Taylor.

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Michael Jackson used whiteness to cover an illness, not as a form of self-hatred, but of insecurity.

Joseph Fiennes will play Michael Jackson in a TV film about a road trip that he took with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando after 9/11.