00:00I'm Anthony Mackie, and these are my memories.
00:05Hello, I'm Anthony Mackie, and I'm gonna share some stories from all the movies I do.
00:13Almost.
00:15First movie.
00:17Classic.
00:18Eight Mile.
00:20So, there used to be this club, downtown Detroit, called Maryland's on Monroe.
00:26M was like the biggest at that time.
00:29He rented out the top floor and had a party for us to chill out and have a good time.
00:34This guy tried to come up.
00:35They wouldn't let him come up.
00:36He got in a fight with security.
00:38He fought security all the way downstairs.
00:40Then, security threw him outside.
00:43He threw a trash can through the front window, came in, fought security some more, and left.
00:49And while he was leaving, he said, I'm coming back next week.
00:54Pain and gain.
00:55One day, we're on set, and I had worked out to get up to like 205 pounds.
01:02I was eating like six times a day.
01:04I was going to the bathroom three times a day.
01:06It was a massive undertaking.
01:08So, The Rock shows up.
01:10So, he usually walks around around 220.
01:12He showed up at 253.
01:17If you know, you know.
01:19And when he walked in, I literally looked like a 12-year-old child.
01:23So, they had to put me in sweatshirts and all this stuff to make me look bigger.
01:27Because he was so huge.
01:30How many grams of protein you eat?
01:33And then, I got to go to WrestleMania and sit ringside and watch The Rock wrestle.
01:38So, boom.
01:39Oh, Adjustment Bureau.
01:45Adjustment Bureau is the movie I met George Noffi on, who wrote and directed Elevation.
01:51So, the final scene of Adjustment Bureau, I'm on the roof with Emily and Matt.
01:56And George gave me one monologue written three different ways.
02:00And he would just call out A, B, or C for whichever monologue he wanted me to jump into at that time.
02:07So, that's kind of where we became friends.
02:09Because he just started torturing me on the roof of 30 Rock.
02:14It's all a test.
02:16For everybody.
02:17Even the members of the Adjustment Bureau.
02:20And I showed him that I was able to do it.
02:27Elevation!
02:28You know what's funny?
02:29I just picked through there and this came out.
02:32Morena and I went to Juilliard together.
02:35So, when George was putting this together and we decided what it was going to be and what it was going to, you know, all that stuff.
02:43He asked me who I wanted to work with.
02:45And I've been asking to work with Morena since we were at school.
02:49And we were such good friends.
02:50And when this came around, I thought she would say no and she said yes.
02:54And she had a better house than me.
02:58Yeah.
03:00Captain America Winter Soldier.
03:03My first Marvel movie.
03:05And funny story.
03:07My first day of shooting on this movie.
03:10They put me on a platform and they're like, we want you to jump off the platform face first into these boxes.
03:16And we're going to put the camera here.
03:18And the camera's going to catch your face.
03:19I'm like, alright, cool.
03:20So, I jump off.
03:21I hit the boxes and they're like, nah, that didn't work.
03:23So, they brought out a construction crane, tethered me to the crane, pulled me up like four stories.
03:30I flipped over and they dropped me into the camera.
03:35The scene where Steve Rogers falls off the hella thing and I go down, grab him and pull him back up.
03:41That's actually me, actually my face, dropping towards the ground at light speed.
03:48And I did it.
03:50You're a lot heavier than you look.
03:53I had a big breakfast.
03:54Oh.
03:56Le Hurt Locker.
03:58Catherine Bigelow.
03:59Rocked it.
04:00One day we're shooting and it's the scene we're driving.
04:03A lot of scenes and shots in this movie were just like improv.
04:07Catherine would just roll camera and we would go into these situations, right?
04:11I met this dude named Fadi, who did special effects on the Hurt Locker.
04:17And he told me, when the movie wrapped, he was going by camel to Mecca.
04:23Amon Jordan to Mecca by camel.
04:26So, I was like, that sounds crazy.
04:28I want in.
04:30He's like, alright, cool.
04:32So, final day of shooting, he brought like three camels.
04:35One camel had all of our stuff on it.
04:37He had his camel.
04:38It was like two of his cousins.
04:39And there was an extra camel.
04:42Get on the camel.
04:43I ride from Amon, Jordan to Saudi Arabia.
04:47And in my passport, I got a book.
04:50It's a picture of a camel and it said, cross by camel.
04:58Mr. and Pete.
05:00Quality film.
05:01Now, the funny thing about this is, I went Stone Cold Rick Ross.
05:05Like, when they told me, they were like, you're going to be playing a bad guy.
05:08I was like, I want to look like Rick Ross.
05:09I don't get to do this that often.
05:11So, make me look like Rick Ross.
05:13So, they literally put together a beard.
05:16And this is the only time you'll see me with a full beard.
05:20And it's very itchy.
05:21I don't know why people wear beards.
05:23But it wasn't fun wearing the beard.
05:25But, quality film.
05:26Great acting.
05:32I've done some good f***ing movies.
05:34Real Steel.
05:35Quality film was supposed to do part two.
05:37Still waiting on it.
05:38Real Steel was dope because we shot it again in Detroit.
05:40In Detroit.
05:41Which is the mecca of filmmaking.
05:44If you've never been.
05:45We're shooting real steel.
05:47It's cold as balls outside, right?
05:49So, we have this great idea that, I don't know if this is illegal or not.
05:53But, right across the bridge.
05:55I mean, it was over 20 years.
05:56I should be fine.
05:57Right across the bridge from Detroit.
05:59There's a casino in a city called Windsor.
06:05Windsor.
06:06Windsor.
06:07Windsor, Canada.
06:08There's a casino overlooking the river to Detroit.
06:10So, my friend met somebody who worked at the casino who was able to take our American money, make it Canadian money, which was way more money.
06:23And then we would go and gamble in Canada and come back with our Canadian money and make it American money.
06:33I don't think that's illegal, but every week our per diem went from like 350 to 900.
06:40You carrying around that kind of scratch?
06:42Don't try that.
06:43I don't know if that's illegal.
06:45It shouldn't be illegal, right?
06:46It's currency exchange.
06:48We have a ghost.
06:51Quality film.
06:52Love this movie.
06:53We shot this in New Orleans.
06:55It was a trilogy of films I was able to shoot at home.
06:58So, we're shooting in this, not so, very angry neighborhood.
07:05And this guy gets wind that we're shooting.
07:08He comes out with his weed whacker and he's just running the weed whacker all day.
07:12Wah, wah, wah, wah.
07:13So, we're like, yo dude, go inside.
07:14Stop it.
07:15He's like, no, you're not gonna buy me off like everybody else.
07:18So, everybody in the neighborhood was like, yo, go away.
07:21Like, they're fixing up this condemned house.
07:24Go away.
07:25He comes out with a spray can and he writes, uh, Netflix's on his fence.
07:34He spray paints his own fence, but he spells Netflix, Netflix's classic.
07:41That's New Orleans.
07:42Yeah, you like this one.
07:46Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.
07:48Classic.
07:49So, funny story.
07:50This is my first movie ever shot in New Orleans.
07:53Crushed it.
07:54Shut down FedEx on Julia Street.
07:56Y'all remember me.
07:57Yeah.
07:58Great.
07:59All right.
08:00Now, this is illegal.
08:01So, don't, uh, yeah, don't talk about this.
08:04All right.
08:05So, Tom Benson, who owned the Saints, had this big warehouse right off of Julia Street.
08:09Right?
08:10And he had all these old Cypress doors and door frames and all this old New Orleans stuff in
08:15this warehouse.
08:16Who knew?
08:17Right?
08:18We rented the warehouse because we were shutting down Julia Street and making it look like the
08:221800s in Louisiana.
08:24So, I was like, yo, I'm gonna drive to work one day.
08:28And right now, in my house, I have four doors that were owned by Tom Benson.
08:33I'm not gonna say how they got in my truck.
08:35I'm not gonna say they got in my house.
08:37But they're beautiful Cypress handmade doors.
08:40My boy Cavanaugh made them, actually, over at Strippy's.
08:42What's up?
08:43Ha ha!
08:44Shout out.
08:45Yeah.
08:46So, I stole Tom Benson doors.
08:47He didn't need them.
08:48They were in a warehouse.
08:50Ho ho.
08:51Ho ho ho ho.
08:52Oh, this is a good one.
08:54Okay.
08:55So, Gangsta Squad.
08:56Look at you.
08:57Come on.
08:58Come on.
08:59Come on.
09:00Come on.
09:01You know, I made this guy famous.
09:06We did his first movie together.
09:08Yeah, that was a good memory.
09:10But, it's the only time you'll see me with a quaffed it afro and a porn stash.
09:15So, check it out.
09:16That was a look.
09:17So, we're shooting Gangsta Squad.
09:18We're downtown LA.
09:19I don't remember what the street was.
09:21We were under a bridge in downtown LA.
09:24This dude comes by in a full squirrel costume on a skateboard.
09:30In the middle of shooting.
09:31In the middle of the day.
09:33In the middle of the day.
09:34So, he goes by.
09:35Now, he stops and security is trying to get him out of there.
09:39So, he starts slap boxing with the security of the movie in the middle of the day in a squirrel costume.
09:46So, imagine three dudes beating up a man-sized squirrel while you're trying to shoot a movie.
09:51Now, this is where it gets weird.
09:54The police come out.
09:56Police come, arrest the squirrel, take him in.
10:00After lunch, another dude comes out and he goes, hey, I'm a film producer.
10:04You know, I heard you have Ryan Gosling over here.
10:08Would you guys like to come visit our set?
10:10Do you know what kind of film he was producing?
10:13An adult competitive film.
10:16That happened on the set of this movie.
10:18Once we saw that, we walked off that set.
10:22Abruptly.
10:23After a while.
10:25Oh!
10:26Black Mirror.
10:27There's a mirror that's black.
10:29So, we shot this episode of Black Mirror in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
10:34Right?
10:35In case you didn't know where Sao Paulo was.
10:37And there was this kid, little nerdy kid, real cool kid who worked on this.
10:42And in the course of four days, he got robbed three times.
10:47Every time he left the hotel, somebody would come behind him and like push him behind a dumpster
10:52and take his shit.
10:54So, about a third time, he couldn't leave the hotel so he was locked in a hotel for two months.
11:01Sad little sucker.
11:02It's a true story though.
11:04Nobody robbed me.
11:05Oh, see?
11:07Didn't I tell you?
11:08Didn't I tell you?
11:09Who's that guy?
11:10Huh?
11:11Huh?
11:12Yup, yup, yup.
11:13I made a lot of dudes famous.
11:15But, so, Half Nelson.
11:17Funny story about Half Nelson.
11:18It's some nasty .
11:19I told him it was nasty .
11:21So, we shot that in New York.
11:22We were in Brooklyn one day.
11:24We're out like by the docks.
11:27I don't know.
11:28By the water where boats dock.
11:30And this is in the movie.
11:32A cat comes over.
11:34Nobody knew where this cat was from.
11:35Nobody checked this cat.
11:37Nobody vasecticides this cat.
11:40Like, where's this cat from?
11:42Ryan picks up the cat.
11:44Nustles it and starts rubbing the cat.
11:47And I'm like, yo, you're gonna catch something.
11:51That cat was nasty.
11:54Don't touch that cat.
11:58Can't bring that shit to my house, man.
11:59Put that cat down.
12:02It was like mangy.
12:03Like, it looked like a creature in the thriller video with Michael Jackson.
12:07That's how I was walking.
12:09He picked the shit up, man.
12:11He picked that shit up.
12:13That boy is wild.
12:14True story.
12:15Ask him.
12:16Ha ha.
12:17Ha ha ha.
12:19Avengers.
12:20Infinity War.
12:21So, Josh Brolin and I are technically friends.
12:26We talk to each other.
12:28We like each other's company.
12:30We send memes.
12:32Me and Josh Brolin.
12:33So, on this movie, one day, I come on set and Josh Brolin's on set.
12:39I'm like, Josh, what's up?
12:41He was like, yo, you're doing your stunt today.
12:43Have fun.
12:44I was like, thanks, man.
12:45So, I walk up and for all intents and purposes, there was a 12-foot cylinder of very large cylinder
12:56proportions wrapped in green.
12:59So, the scene in the movie is, I'm supposed to fly in, and I'm on a rope.
13:04I'm supposed to fly in, grab this cylinder, stick my wings in, and then ride it down to
13:11the ground and shoot it.
13:13Pew, pew, right?
13:14So, I fly in and I hit the cylinder.
13:18Put my wings in.
13:20There are no wings.
13:22That's when they slowly let the thing down and I'm on it like this.
13:25It became a running joke.
13:28I killed the biggest, baddest enemy in Infinity War with my thrusting of my wings.
13:41I don't know why I told the Josh Brolin part.
13:43I just wanted y'all to know I was friends with Josh Brolin and we text each other.
13:47That's pretty cool to me.
13:49Voila!
13:50Yeah!
13:51Yeah!
13:52Yeah!
13:53Yeah!
13:54Yeah!
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