MJ showed THIS video to producers, not balking when he was reminded Professor X was white (via toofab)
"I said to him, 'Do you know Xavier is an older white guy?'" producer Lauren Shuler Donner recalled."And Michael said, 'Oh yeah. You know, I can wear makeup.'"
Jackson then attempted to prove his case by showing everyone his 1996 short film called"Michael Jackson's Ghosts," which was co-written byIn it, the entertainer plays an eccentric man with supernatural powers who performs magic tricks and tells ghost stories to the children of a small town called Normal Valley. The elderly white mayor of Normal Valley wants to run Jackson's character out of town.
Guess who plays thee mayor in the 39-minute flick? Jackson -- acting and dancing in extreme prosthetic makeup. Twentieth Century Fox was reportedly never considering Jackson, who was already fighting claims against him of sexually abusing children at the time.
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