“And, just to say, I asked the broadcaster to pull it.”
. “And it was a wrong decision. Absolutely.” He went on to take responsibility for the show’s poor judgment. “And I’m one part of that — there are producers, broadcasters, writers, directors, all involved in these decisions,” he said. “But obviously if I’m upfront, I have become the voice for other people. I would love them to be around the table as well to talk about it. But you know, it came at a time where there was a movement and a shift and that was good, and it was, you know, a bad call.
, he said he wanted people to see him as Jackson to provoke a “discussion,” and did not say he regretted his “In the latest interview, though, he credits himself for his behind-the-scenes work of getting Sky Arts to drop the episode of the anthology series altogether, which focuses on Michael Jackson’s post-9/11 road trip with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando . At the time, Fiennes’s casting decision led to a whitewashing backlash.
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