{"id":2387641,"date":"2026-04-24T16:53:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2387641"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:53:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:53:30","slug":"michael-movie-nia-long-colman-domingo-talk-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/michael-movie-nia-long-colman-domingo-talk-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Michael&#8217; Movie: Nia Long &#038; Colman Domingo Talk Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>When I first heard there would be a<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/en-us\/2013\/08\/52454\/michael-jackson-fan-tribute-video\"> Michael Jackson<\/a> movie, I was skeptical. Let\u2019s be honest, MJ biopics don\u2019t exactly have the best track record. (Who could forget <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@tprmediagroup\/video\/7393109404624768302\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Flex Alexander<\/a> as MJ?)\u00a0 But when I heard his nephew, Jaafar Jackson, would be playing Michael Jackson in the biopic, I was intrigued. In the film<sub>, <\/sub>the resemblance and shared swagger between the two can only be explained by genetics. Add in stellar performances by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/en-us\/2023\/09\/11523847\/colman-domingo-sing-sing-rustin-review\">Colman Domingo<\/a> as Joe Jackson and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/en-us\/2021\/09\/10660713\/does-love-jones-hold-up-black-romance\">Nia Long<\/a> as Katherine Jackson and suddenly <em>Michael<\/em> starts to feel like it might have real weight, the kind that made <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/en-us\/2019\/07\/237885\/who-is-austin-butler-elvis-baz-luhrmann-movie\">Baz Luhrmann\u2019s <em>Elvis<\/em><\/a> more than just another biopic.<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.refinery29.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard there would be a Michael Jackson movie, I was skeptical. Let\u2019s be honest, MJ biopics don\u2019t exactly have the best track record. (Who could forget Flex Alexander as MJ?)\u00a0 But when I heard his nephew, Jaafar Jackson, would be playing Michael Jackson in the biopic, I was intrigued. In the film, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2387642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741,21912,312171,436337],"class_list":["post-2387641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-the-latest","tag-unbothered"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Michael-Movie-Nia-Long-Colman-Domingo-Talk-Roles-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387643,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387641\/revisions\/2387643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2387642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}