{"id":11656,"date":"2023-02-02T11:19:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T11:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11656"},"modified":"2023-02-02T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T11:24:05","slug":"michael-jacksons-nephew-to-star-in-singers-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=11656","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson\u2019s Nephew To Star In Singer\u2019s Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American actor, Jaafar Jackson, will be playing the role of his uncle and legendary popstar, Michael Jackson, in the singer\u2019s upcoming biopic.<\/p>\n<p>This was announced by the film\u2019s movie director, Antoine Fuqua, who shared a picture of Jaafar\u2019s transformation via Instagram on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProud to announce @jaafarjackson as Michael\u2014the motion picture event that explores the journey of the man who became the King of Pop,\u201d he captioned the post.<\/p>\n<p>Jaafar also posted the same picture and expressed his excitement regarding the project.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI\u2019m humbled and honored to bring my Uncle Michael\u2019s story to life. To all the fans all over the world, I\u2019ll see you soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, it was revealed that the biopic titled Michael, will detail the high and low points of Jackson\u2019s life \u201cincluding his most iconic performances that led him to become the greatest entertainer of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u2019s mother, Katherine Jackson, also welcomed the development in a statement contained in the press release,\u00a0<em>E! News<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>\u201cJafaar embodies my son,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s so wonderful to see him carry on the Jackson legacy of entertainers and performers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jaafar, who bears a close resemblance with the \u201cThriller\u201d crooner, is the son of Michael\u2019s older brother, Jermaine Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Jermaine was a vocalist on the former Motown boy band, The Jackson Five, of which Michael was a member.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-meta\">\n<div class=\"share-article justify-content-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American actor, Jaafar Jackson, will be playing the role of his uncle and legendary popstar, Michael Jackson, in the singer\u2019s upcoming biopic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6337,6335,6336,4077],"class_list":["post-11656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-biopic","tag-michael-jackson","tag-nephew","tag-singer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11657,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656\/revisions\/11657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}