20 Actors Who Will CRUSH Upcoming Movie Roles
14. Colman Domingo - Michael
Say what you will about the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic - and boy, you sure can say a lot about it - the central casting choices do some pretty on-point, with Jackson's nephew Jaafar portraying the singer himself, and even more promisingly, the ever-great Colman Domingo will play MJ's father Joe Jackson.
Domingo is an extremely versatile talent, and it doesn't take much imagination at all to picture him bringing the necessary gravitas to play Joe Jackson in all of his complexity.
Domingo can be both ultra-charismatic and unnervingly intense, enough that short of Michael being an utter disaster, he's highly likely to land himself a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination here.
From what we've seen of Domingo's performance in the trailer so far, he absolutely seems to have nailed the man's general aura, aided of course by some robust make-up work.
If Domingo doesn't end up being a major highlight of the movie, regardless of how it turns out overall, it'd be hugely surprising.