Colman Domingo has been professionally acting for nearly 30 years, and now he’s hit a major milestone for any performer in the business. When the nominees for the 96th Academy Awards were shared earlier this week, it was revealed that Domingo will compete in the Best Actor category for his performance as Bayard Rustin in Rustin, which some of you may consider to be one of the best movies on Netflix. While we have a little over a month to go until we learn if the actor will take home an Oscar, fresh off his nomination being unveiled, it’s been announced that he’s been cast in a key role for the Michael Jackson biopic.
Domingo has been tapped to play Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson’s father, in Michael, which hails from Lionsgate and Universal Pictures International. The actor’s role is described in the official announcement as “the hard-driving, singularly focused, controversial patriarch of the Jackson family,” who passed away in 2018. Domingo will star opposite Jackson’s real-life nephew Jafaar Jackson, who’s playing his late pop star uncle. Training Day’s Antoine Fuqua is directing the biopic, Gladiator’s John Logan wrote the script, and Bohemian Rhapsody’s Graham King is producing through his GK Films banner.
