It’s been greater than 20 years since Eminem made his massive display screen debut alongside an unknown Anthony Mackie within the cult basic movie 8 Mile and now all these years later, the brand new Captain America (Mackie) is opening up about working alongside the best white rapper that ever lived with fairly an fascinating story.
In a latest interview on the Pivot podcast, Anthony Mackie recalled how Eminem took precise pictures at Mackie throughout the movie’s ultimate rap battle between B-Rabbit (Eminem) and Papa Doc (Mackie). Speaking about his small function within the movie, Mackie defined that he and Eminem frolicked behind the scenes to turn into extra accustomed to one another, as Eminem didn’t suppose it made sense that the 2 had beef within the movie. So as to add just a little extra chemistry to their on-screen drama, he and Em bought to know one another a bit extra and apparently sufficient, Em used a few of Mackie’s precise background as the idea for his bars and put his precise actual life on blast within the movie.
Traces like “However I do know one thing about you, you went to Cranbrook, that’s a personal college,” and “Clarence lives at residence with each dad and mom/and Clarence dad and mom have an actual good marriage,” have been primarily based on his actual life, as he went to Juilliard and actually did have a superb residence life with each his dad and mom. Humorous how having a superb childhood may very well be used as a damaging throughout a rap battle (LOL).
Nonetheless, Mackie didn’t take something personally and known as Em a “good” artist regardless that he was blindsided by the bars throughout filming. “That’s why I used to be standing there like, ‘You talkin’ about me! You not talkin’ about Clarence! This has nothing to do with the character! You’re an a*shole, Eminem!” Mackie stated.
Regardless, the bars labored completely for the movie. The one different info that was recognized about Papa Doc was that he was the chief of the Free World crew that was terrorizing Eminem and his crew whereas operating the streets as if Papa Doc was that dude. Nope, he was a child from the burbs who bought a superb schooling however was fronting like he lived the onerous knock life. Typical.
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