Michael Jackson tried to get into almost every movie in the 90's. Why wouldnt anyone cast him? Real answers only, no /pol/ shit please

>>213654807 (OP)
he woud be the focus of anything he was in and moonwalker was gay. His best film work is the Wiz, and that movie sucks.

would have been too distracting to have on set. he was also shit at acting

>>213654833
Didn't he try to buy the rights to Spiderman so that he could make a Spiderman movie starring himself as Spiderman?

Why do you ask questions, if you refuse to hear the answers?

>>213654807 (OP)
Because he wasn't an actor and he was really on the "outs" in the '90s. He couldn't even really do a good job in his 30 second scene in MIBII.

>>213654872
I heard something like that. He also wanted to be WIlly Wonka (might have been ok) and fucking Jar Jar BIiks.

>>213654807 (OP)
He was more kino than any movie could ever be

the allegations probably had something to do with it

>>213654968
WTF?! They had the chance to cast Michael as Wonka AND THEY DIDN'T!?

Is he the most eccentric person in history, at least in terms of scale? Like there are weirder homeless junkies, but he seems like the strangest person to garner such a massive following. I can't even think of a historical equivalent/precedent for him. The only thing that comes close in my eyes are occultists like Dee or Blavatsky in terms of oddity mixed with prominence but that's very different and even then I feel like none of them have anything on black boy bleaching himself, hanging around with chimpanzees, and putting out all time great musical hits.

>>213654807 (OP)
>>213654915
> I can be agent M.
That scene is hilarious, and knowing that what happened behind the scenes makes it a bit sad.

shamone

WOOO!

>>213654846

In the performing arts, a "triple threat" is an extremely rare talent who can do it all, and do all three things well: singing, dancing, and acting. Gene Kelly is sometimes cited as an example of a true triple threat. Michael Jackson came very, very close to this status by the sheer overpowering strength of his singing and dancing alone, and the number of acting projects that he engaged in deserve some credit as an acting career. That said, his acting ability was obviously his most deficient trait. Although he could convey ranges of emotions reasonably well, he did this primarily through the singing and dancing themselves, and not in straight acting. As an actor, he largely played himself, or the idealized pop star version of himself (impossible to really separate the two, since he was trained on this from early childhood). Also, his sheer weirdness became a distraction over time, and his fame precluded any possibility of being something like a "character actor".

I imagine Michael Jackson's abilities as a triangular power distribution model, as shown. It's basically a lopsided isosceles triangle. The singing and dancing chops break the scale, each around 10.5/10, while the acting ability is anywhere from 1-4, depending on how charitable (or not) a reviewer may be feeling.

>>213654807 (OP)
He was a bad actor; mostly down to his voice. They wanted to dub him in Captain EO

>>213655240
he heeeee

>>213654807 (OP)
why the hell would any movie want a random popstar to show up if it wasnt already a movie about popstars/dancing or a musical