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Oscar Nom Squirms Through Answer About ‘Whitewashed’ Movie
April 22, 2026
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Today Show/YouTubeThe stars of Michael were asked how they “reconcile” their roles in the biopic, which doesn’t address the allegations of child sex abuse against its subject, pop icon Michael Jackson.Nia Long and Oscar nominee Colman Domingo, who play Jackson’s parents, Katherine and Joe, in the movie, were put on the spot on the subject by Today host Craig Melvin on Wednesday.
“The film does stop in 1988, several years before the first child molestation allegations were made,” Melvin told the actors, “What would you say to folks who see this, and they’re like, ‘You know, they whitewashed that part?’”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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