Brent, I haven't heard much about this movie, and I don't know if that's a
good or a bad thing. Makes me leery of watching it. And I'm hoping that the
Lind holo was pre-first rehab.
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:05 AM, brent wodehouse
brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/08/anthony_mackie_wont_play_with.html
Anthony Mackie on Working With Hugh Jackman, Robots in Real Steel
At last night's launch of Marc Ecko Cut Sew's new ad campaign, featuring
[ http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/08/lohan_1.html ]a hologram of
Lindsay Lohan, longtime Ecko customer Anthony Mackie stayed far away from
the computer stations demoing digital Lindsay, preferring to flirt with
his many lady admirers in the VIP section. He's been on a roll since The
Hurt Locker's Oscar run made him a household name, so Vulture took this
opportunity grill him about reading suggestions for Lohan in rehab and his
spate of new projects.
Have you tried playing with the Lindsay Lohan hologram yet?
I haven't. I feel like something about virtual Lindsay Lohan turns me on
too much to play with it in front of people.
You can give her commands and make her do stuff. What would you have her
do?
I would have her tell me what I look good in. Guys want to know what looks
good to women, so you want a woman who you think is hot to tell you what
you look good in. I would like to be able to go on the site and have her
sit there and say, You look good in that.
The webcam films her and then projects her into your world.
I don't want her in my world! I don't want her, like, in my house.
She's in rehab now. Got any reading suggestions for her?
I'm on a big David McCullough kick. I'm reading The Johnstown Flood and
1776. I'm a big history buff. So I'd just tell her to pick up some really
good history books and check out mistakes other people have made. Every
time I think I've done something stupid, I read about something like the
Johnstown Flood and I'm like, You know what? I'm not so bad.
You're doing the sci-fi movie Real Steel with Hugh Jackman. You're a
promoter of robot boxers?
I'm the Don King of the future. It's an amazing movie. Shawn Levy is an
amazing director. And Hugh is honestly one of the coolest cats in the
business. All of my scenes are with him. He is basically a robot boxing
[trainer] and I am the promoter. So he has to come to me to get his fights
on.
Are there actual robots or is it CGI?
They're there! They built eight-foot-tall robots! Yes. You're standing
there and a big-ass robot comes by. They got the guy who did all the
robots for Jurassic Park and Jaws and all these crazy movies and got him
to build mechanical eight-foot-tall robots.
What do you do with the robots?
I run away from them! No, basically I introduce the robots; I promote the
robots; I speak with robots who want to fight other robots. I'm the Don
King of it all.
Do you have Don King's hair?
No, I don't. There are two hairstyles you will never find another man
wearing: Don King's and Al Sharpton's. They're done. They're done.
Evangeline Lilly retired from acting and then [
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/05/evangeline_lilly_unretires.html
]unretired eight days later to do this movie. Did you talk about it?
No, but that's everyone's goal, to pull an Anthony Hopkins: You know
what? I'm never gonna do this again.
After that, you're playing Buddy Bolden, the Cornet King of New Orleans
and the guy people think started jazz, and then track star Jesse Owens.
Are those skills you possess already?
You bet. I run three miles a day and I've been playing trumpet since
middle school. I think that's why they cast me. I can't talk about Jesse
Owens, but we finished filming Bolden two weeks ago.
You play your own trumpet music?
No, no, no. Wynton Marsalis played all the music. I just act the fuck out
of it.
I always get annoyed when people pretend to play musical instruments in
movies.
Well, as an actor, don't you think I get annoyed when musicians pretend to
act? Right back 'atcha.
How do you feel about all the rappers getting into acting?
A. [Rolls eyes, evading question.] I played the trumpet some. By the
end of the movie, I got my chops back up to where I could sort of make it
work. I learned all the music. Delfeayo Marsalis was my musical coach, so
he made sure everything I did was on point, that I had the right fingering
and stuff. So I think, and everyone else thinks it looks like I'm playing
the music.
Why are you taking so many roles based on real people?
Because those are the best stories! If someone came to me and said, We
want you to play Spider-Man, I'd say, Hell yeah! But I'd have to get
them to change the name to Brotha-man. That's who I'd be.
--
If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell
wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
