Anthony Mackie turned down a lot of rapper roles after Eminem’s ‘8 Mile’.
Eminem releases a deluxe edition of the film’s music to commemorate 20 years of 8 Mile. The Detroit rapper posted a compilation of clips from the 2002 rap-focused film along with the announcement on social networks.
“You signed me up to battle?!??” 8 Mile deluxe out now- https://t.co/4NFWpKgE9s #8Mile20 pic.twitter.com/EQ0V9MWaD0
— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) October 28, 2022
Anthony Mackie, the Marvel star, who’s back with his role of Falcon in the new Disney+ series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” which premiered on March 19, recently sat down with Jemele Hill for a new interview. On the show, Anthony Mackie talks about the process of filming a Marvel project, what viewers can expect from the 6 hour series, and where this will take us in the Marvel universe, the first time he felt famous during an unusual chain of events on the streets of London. Plus, he makes the shocking revelation that still uses an iPhone 6. Anthony Mackie also talks about working on the hit movie ‘8 Mile‘ which stars Eminem, and that he was only offered roles of rappers, gangsters after it.
“There’s a lot of stuff I turned down,” Mackie said. “After 8 Mile, I was offered every rapper, every gangster… Every movie. And then there were certain movies that I wanted to audition for that my reps were like, ‘After doing 8 Mile, I don’t think you should do that. So it was a conscious decision on their part that became a conscious decision on my part.”
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He continues, “Early in my career, I would say six times out of 10, the roles that I was auditioning for were written for white dudes,” Mackie said. “When I auditioned for Hurt Locker, Hurt Locker was written for a white dude, 8 Mile wasn’t even written.”
They’ve continually worked together, according to Mackie, to avoid him from being typecast or locked in clichéd roles. “One of the first conversations we had when we sat down was, ‘What career do you want?’ Because they were like, ‘If you want to be gang member number three in every movie, I don’t want to represent you. And my agent and my manager, they’re very focused on and in tune with the idea of me and my Blackness. And they appreciate and support that, and instead of just trying to make me—in his own words—instead of trying to make me the best Black actor out there, they wanted to get those roles that would make me the best actor out there.”
Check out his full interview below.
