Anthony Could not lose himself while filming in the final 8 miles Rap fight against Eminem - But he remembered that he was very personal.

"We're doing the movie and you know, Eminem is exactly a bright boy," McKie, 46, Tuesday, March 11, "recalled during the episode"Pivot"Podcast. "We're setting up one day and he's like that, 'Yes, it doesn't make sense to make us proud.' And I was, 'okay?' And like that, 'I need something on you.' "

McKie portrayed Papa Doc in the 2002 drama, the leader of the Free World Rap Group, who eventually lost to Eminem's B-Thagosh at the final rap show. During the verse of the B-Thagosh, he claimed that Papa Doc's real name Clarence, he went to a private school and his parents were still married. According to Mackey, some shots were on him personally and "nothing to do" with his character.

"So we talk to be as cool for two hours. I go to the casino. The next day, we're shooting for the battle scene, and that's why I'm standing there, 'You're talking about me. You're not talking about Clarence! “McKie recalled that his character's disappointment faces are his natural reactions to Eminem's song.

"You're an A-, Eminem!" He made a joke. "I like, 'I will fight this mom F ———!' I like, 'Yes my parents are still married!' "

8 miles Both McKie and Eminem's feature film debut. Marvel Star was previously opened on the shooting of the movie during an episode of 2021 The rich iisen showClaimed that Eminem originally promised its raps would include only "character things".

"This was one day, we were sitting on the set and the Eminem came and she was' What -up Man, I was reading a script and no reason to like me, you are cool friend, I liked you,” Mackey remembered. "And then I said, 'I liked you too,' and then he was, 'cool. So if I add some things to you on the script about you, you won't objection?' I was, 'A character about me or the character?' He likes 'no, not something', 'yes no problem.' "

The actor claimed, “So before the whole 8 miles Final fight, he Google me and all the things that are about me and the things he basically learn about me as papa dock. "And then I like, 'It's a little personal Mr Marshal. ... I grew up in a beautiful house, my parents looked good with me, why are you kidding me?'

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Eight years after Papa Docu's painting, McKie took the role Tupak shakur In the 20's NotoriousThe The Captain America Star has given his time to the drama section of Zilliard - from which he graduated in 2001 - for his wrapping skills and versatility as an actor.

"From an actor's point of view, the idea of ​​approaching a rapper, you are really talking in poems. I always said, one of the biggest rappers (who) was Shakespeare, "said" during an episode of McKie 2021 HotThe "If I don't have training, I can't play Tupak, Martin Luther King, Papa Dock, Falcon. Training is just something that gives you an additional level to stand ”"