If you ask me the most successful musical biopics allow their stars to interpret the song styles of the artists they are playing. Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner’s Daughter, Jeremy Allen White in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Taron Egerton in Rocketman all did their own singing, even with the risk of not measuring up to the icons they played who were all still alive when their films came out. As Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody Rami Malek merged his own voice with Mercury’s and a sound-alike so it doesn’t always have to be pure to succeed. Austin Butler did most of his own singing in Baz Lurhman’s Elvis even if the real Presley was mixed in here and there.
For the new Michael Jackson biopic, Michael however Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson was tapped to take on the role with
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