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Actor Anthony Mackie sits down and tries to guess lines from his biggest movies. He talks playing Captain America, his craziest 'before work' experience, and singing the 'Thong Song' for his role on 'Twisted Metal.'
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00:00Let that bitch go first.
00:01I say bitch a lot.
00:02Watch this, watch this.
00:03Here it goes.
00:06Hell yeah, we're gonna have a scene,
00:07100% based on the thong song.
00:21My very first movie, Let That Bitch Go First.
00:24I say bitch a lot.
00:25Let That Bitch Go First.
00:27That was 8 Mile.
00:29Let That Bitch Go First.
00:32Funny story for that scene.
00:34We shot that.
00:35There used to be this club in Detroit called the Shantiki,
00:38and they made a replica of it.
00:40And they had like 400 extras in this little room,
00:42and it was packed.
00:43It was like the craziest hip hop cypher of all time
00:46on a set in real life.
00:49And how that line came out,
00:52it was supposed to say, you know,
00:53he can go first was the line.
00:55And Eminem had came to me and talked to me
00:58about the idea of Papa Doc and, you know,
01:01the B-Rabbit and the two characters.
01:03And I was like, we were always trying to one-up each other.
01:07And, you know, my thing is, like,
01:09if I'm beefing with this dude,
01:10I ain't gonna be able to let him go first.
01:11Nah, he a bitch.
01:12Let that bitch go first.
01:13So when I said it, I saw M eyes go, yeah, okay.
01:16And I'm like, yeah.
01:17So if you watch it, you see Makai jump in between us,
01:20like, oh!
01:21So it was all, like, in the moment.
01:26And I feel I gave a nice added bump for what was to come
01:32with Marshall's dismantle of Papa Doc.
01:35Every time we go out, it's life or death.
01:41You roll the dice.
01:42You deal with it.
01:43You recognize that, don't you?
01:45Nah, it's Hurt Locker.
01:47Every time we go out, it's life or death.
01:51You roll the dice, and you deal with it.
01:57Hurt Locker is probably one of the most important acting
02:02experiences I had.
02:03We shot that in 2007, and I remember I was doing a movie
02:09in North Carolina with quite possibly the worst director
02:15to ever direct.
02:17Ironically, because of that, the movie never came out.
02:19And because of that, the movie went over,
02:22and I had to pull out of Hurt Locker.
02:25They offered it to somebody else, and he said no
02:28because it wasn't enough money.
02:31And they came back to me, and they were like, look,
02:32you know, we'll wait if you do it.
02:36I'm like, fuck yeah, I'll do it.
02:37They're like, but you got to be on a plane the day
02:39after you wrap.
02:40So I went from this sucky director who had no business
02:44in being in the business or in the director's chair
02:48to Kathryn Bivillow.
02:50And the moment I landed in Amman, Jordan,
02:54like we hit the ground running, like cultural research,
02:58military research, character studies,
03:00like the real work a director does.
03:02And it really was poignant to me, like the type of people
03:06I want to work with, and the type of people
03:08who shouldn't be working.
03:13Please tell me I knocked that son of a bitch out.
03:15That's the ending moment of Captain America with Red Hulk,
03:20which is funny because that, is that right?
03:25Oh, good, good, good.
03:26Please tell me I knocked that son of a bitch out.
03:30That moment, you know, I'm supposed to be in the street
03:33covered in debris and rocks, and it's all these fake rocks.
03:36So I couldn't breathe or see,
03:39because I was covered in fake rock dust.
03:41I couldn't open my eyes, because my eyes
03:43was full of fake rock dust.
03:44So I really couldn't tell if he was knocked out or not.
03:47We were working on this huge set in Atlanta.
03:50And I remember one of the grips, this older guy,
03:56and I said the line I stood up, and he came over.
03:58He was like, it's hot as hell out here.
04:00I hope you knock that son of a bitch out, too.
04:03So that was a fun day.
04:05I never thought I would be playing Captain America,
04:08because we had a perfectly healthy Captain America.
04:10I mean, you know, when you look at Chris Evans and, you know,
04:14Marvel had this interesting thing where pretty much everybody
04:17were allowed to have three movies.
04:19Like, everybody have three movies, and they were done.
04:21You know, Thor being the only one with like 17 movies.
04:24So I never thought that there would be an opportunity.
04:28I was thinking that there would be a Falcon movie,
04:32but I never thought it would be Falcon Captain America movie.
04:35I never saw that happenin'.
04:42I listened to Unleash the Dragon so many times the disc broke.
04:44Oh, well, that's Twisted Metal, season one.
04:50Look, I listened to Unleash the Dragon so many times the disc broke.
04:53To be honest, if you listen to the thong song, the melodic ability of Sisqo is one in a million.
05:05Shout out to Sisqo.
05:13This, you know, with this line, I have to give credit to our writer, MJ.
05:18When he picked the thong song, you know, it was funny because I'm like,
05:21hell yeah, we're going to have a scene 100% based on Drew Hill and Sisqo and the thong song.
05:28That, I mean, in Unleash the Dragon, because, you know, Baby Big Mom, I mean, it's classic.
05:35You can't top that album.
05:38Let me see that thong.
05:42Like it when the beat go?
05:43Da-da-da-da.
05:44Baby, let your booty go.
05:45Da-da-da-da.
05:46Season two, we re-upped, got some really good music, some really good.
05:52I think this season is truly an ensemble season.
05:56One thing I'm excited about, the list of characters we have, the actors we have that are so amazing.
06:02Like I said, last year, you know, I knew Sweet Tooth was going to be the breakout star of the season,
06:06but Sweet Tooth is just, you know, what Samoa Joe does with that character is amazing.
06:14Time for the posh ring is over.
06:16It's time to, ooh, ooh, ooh.
06:22Time for the posh ring is over.
06:24It's time to act.
06:27What is this?
06:28Oh, damn it.
06:30That's good.
06:31The time for posturing is over.
06:35It's time to act.
06:37I actually talked to Brian two days ago.
06:39Shout out, Brian Cranston.
06:40All the Way was an amazing opportunity and an amazing project to work on because I was
06:47so nervous about the idea of playing somebody as legendary as Martin Luther King, you know,
06:52and not it really being a true idea of his essence or, you know, person as opposed to a mimicry of who we
07:00thought he thought he might have been, but I couldn't have did it with a better actor than Brian.
07:04And, um, we've been friends ever since and he makes good tequila.
07:08Let's see.
07:09I ain't makin' no more tacos.
07:11I ain't makin' no more tacos.
07:15I ain't makin' up after nobody's tacos.
07:18I put my beef in that taco, baby.
07:20Everybody's gonna eat some of this.
07:23This is Pain and Gain.
07:27Pain and Gain was probably one of the craziest work experiences I ever had because we shot it in Miami.
07:42So the Miami Heat had just won the championship, right?
07:46So there's this club called Live.
07:49My boy is, he was the Miami Heat DJ and he was the DJ at Live.
07:55So I had to be at work the next morning.
07:57Miami Heat was throwing a party at Live.
08:00It was crazy.
08:00LeBron was there.
08:01D-Way, everybody.
08:02It was crazy.
08:03They were like, the ceiling was moving.
08:04It was crazy.
08:05So my boy hit me.
08:07He's like, yo, what you doing?
08:08And I was like, I'm at the crib.
08:09I gotta go to work in the morning.
08:10He's like, nah, you gotta come to Live now, dog.
08:12It's going down.
08:13So I'm like, ah, get in the car.
08:15Sweat!
08:15Go down to Live.
08:16I show up, go in the back, go to the DJ booth.
08:19He go, yo, everybody's coming tonight.
08:22I'm gonna need you to do me a favor.
08:23I'm like, what's up?
08:24He goes, I'm gonna need you to put this on and spray the crowd with nitrous.
08:30Like, you know, cold air.
08:33So he gives me a Smurf costume, like a full seven foot Smurf costume in a LeBron jersey.
08:42And I stood on the DJ booth with DJ Irie, spraying like cold air over the crowd.
08:50And then I lost my balance and I fell off the DJ booth.
08:53So anybody who was dead at night, if you saw the Smurf fall off the DJ booth, that was me.
09:00Shout out to DJ Irie.
09:02Watch this.
09:04Watch this.
09:05Here it goes.
09:06That sucks.
09:12All it had to do was go over.
09:16We're not gonna fight, we're gonna kiss.
09:24Man, this sounds like my real life.
09:34What is this?
09:40Yeah, this is the rain sequence.
09:42Yeah.
09:43By far the worst night of that shoot because of the rain.
09:47And them literally spraying us with hose pipes because we were in Brazil.
09:51But Black Mirror was amazing.
09:52It was on my bucket list to be in an episode of Black Mirror.
09:56And I loved that show from inception.
10:00Oh, cut the check.
10:04Yeah.
10:05That's my...
10:06So a lot of people don't know where this came from.
10:09I'm a big Roots fan.
10:12Black Thought is probably the, if not number one, number two greatest MC of all time.
10:17He has this song and it's about rappers not saying nothing.
10:21And at the end of lollygagging and running their mouth, they say, cut the check.
10:26Right?
10:27So like, give it here and don't say nothing.
10:28Right?
10:29So for me, I'm like, yo, if I do my work, when I put in my money shot, this is what I'm
10:35here to get paid for.
10:36Like, so I had to let them know when we were all of...
10:39Every time I'm on, you know, a Marvel movie, that's my thing is eight.
10:43I gave you the money.
10:45So give me the money.
10:46You should record this.
10:48It's going to be good.
10:53Cut the check.
10:54It just came out of the ridiculous, playful nature of us shooting those movies.
10:58Oh, that was good.
10:59Cut the check.
11:00Boom.
11:01Cut the check.
11:02Cut the check.
11:04Cut the check.
11:05Let them know.
11:06Hell yeah, man.
11:08Look, they'll shortchange you however they can.
11:10I go up to the line producer and say, hey, cut the check.
11:15I'm like, uh, okay.
11:17It's coming.
11:18Well, I'm from Louisiana.
11:24It doesn't mean my daddy taught me how to use a grenade launcher.
11:28Oh, uh, uh, grenade launcher outside the wire.
11:33No, no, no.
11:34Wait.
11:35Elevation.
11:36Elevation.
11:37Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
11:38I'm from Louisiana.
11:39It doesn't mean my dad taught me how to use a grenade launcher.
11:42Elevation was an interesting moment.
11:45You know, being in 30 Rock, my boy, George Nolfi, we've done three, four, 17 movies together now.
11:52And, um, Elevation was kind of something, you know, he was working on, came up with and called me and sent it to me.
12:00And, you know, it's always good to work with friends.
12:04Like, it's always be able to go to, it's always good to be able to go to work and just enjoy the people that you're with.
12:10It's one of those projects that just came together perfectly.
12:13Because of that, like, it was just a bunch of friends that got together in nowhere, Colorado, and made a good movie.
12:19But what really pissed me off about Elevation, we shot that in Boulder, Colorado, about three months before Deion Sanders got to the University of Colorado.
12:30I was the only black dude.
12:32I discovered Colorado.
12:34Colorado, Boulder was not a city until I got there.
12:37And then three months later, Deion Sanders show up and every black person in America all of a sudden is in Boulder, Colorado.
12:45Come on, man.
12:47Sundance went to Boulder, Colorado because of me.
12:51Because I shot that movie there.
12:53That's all I got to say.
12:54I discovered Boulder, Colorado.
12:56Shout out to Breckenridge.
13:00and we'll be right back.
13:02I'll see you next time.
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