{"id":434209,"date":"2026-05-06T00:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434209\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:13:10","slug":"jaafar-jackson-honors-michael-jackson-at-met-gala-2026-in-ralph-lauren-look-as-michael-biopic-dominates-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434209\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaafar Jackson Honors Michael Jackson at Met Gala 2026 in Ralph Lauren Look as \u2018Michael\u2019 Biopic Dominates Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s theme, &#8220;Fashion Is Art,&#8221; was part of an exhibition curated by Andrew Bolton titled &#8220;Costume Art.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The exhibition looks at the relationship between clothing and the human body through different forms and stages of life.<\/p>\n<p>Jaafar&#8217;s appearance at the Met Gala comes at a time when his film Michael is doing well at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>The film, which was released on April 24, has earned strong numbers both in North America and worldwide. <\/p>\n<p>In the film, Jaafar steps into the role of his uncle and recreates several of his famous looks from music videos and performances. <\/p>\n<p>Costume designer Marci Rodgers worked on recreating outfits from songs like &#8220;Thriller&#8221; and &#8220;Beat It,&#8221; along with tour costumes and the famous Pepsi commercial look.<\/p>\n<p>Jaafar Jackson, speaking about the film in an interview cited by People magazine, described his experience watching it, saying, &#8220;As soon as it came on, it was a completely different experience than what I thought it was going to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It went by so fast&#8230; the second time I saw it was a completely different experience. I was able to understand what the story is and really allow myself to enjoy what&#8217;s on the screen,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>As per Variety, &#8216;Michael&#8217; opened to $97.5 million domestically on April 24 and has since earned $183.8 million across North America. Globally, the biopic has grossed $423 million within two weekends of release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year&#8217;s theme, &#8220;Fashion Is Art,&#8221; was part of an exhibition curated by Andrew Bolton titled &#8220;Costume Art.&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[189503,2478,321,189067,93,61,60,75811,146515,189500,189502,189499,39478,189504,189501,12626],"class_list":["post-434209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-beat-it-costume","tag-box-office","tag-celebrities","tag-costume-art","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jaafar-jackson","tag-met-gala-2026","tag-met-gala-debut","tag-met-gala-look","tag-michael-biopic","tag-michael-jackson","tag-michael-review","tag-mj-tribute","tag-ralph-lauren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}