Machine Gun Kelly, real name Colson Baker, has claimed that he recently turned down the opportunity to star in a Hollywood blockbuster after refusing to say the “n-word”
Machine Gun Kelly turned down a Hollywood film and refused to “say the n-word”.
The rapper has said he was uncomfortable with using a racial slur – the 35-year-old was reportedly offered to audition for a vampire character in Ryan Coogler’s latest film Sinners.
MGK claims he declined upon discovering his character would use the “n-word” and told The Pat McAfee Show: “Like Sinners, I was supposed to be in that.”
“The vampire, they had me set up to do the audition, it’s the one that’s in the house so he’s the second vampire, the one that the guy comes and eats the family. In the audition, he has to say the ‘n-word’ and I wouldn’t do it.”
“I have a lot of aspirations to be in films, it just hasn’t worked out that way. I’m on universal timing. It’ll align. The angels will put something in the works.”
“There’s been plenty of films that come out that I was like: ‘Ah, I was supposed to be in that,’ or I did auditions for that.”
It’s likely that MGK’s audition for “the second vampire” was for the role of Bert, a KKK member who was turned by the vampire Remmick (Jack O’Connell), a part which was eventually played by Peter Dreimanis.
Sinners, starring Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld and Miles Caton, is a horror flick set in the Mississippi Delta in 1932, where criminal twin brothers return to their hometown to start anew but are confronted by a supernatural evil.
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