
Machine Gun Kelly Claims He Refused ‘Sinners’ Audition Offer Because ‘I Wouldn’t Say’ the N-Word’
Machine Gun Kelly says he could have auditioned for a vampire role in Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” but he turned it down over his reluctance to say the n-word.
Kelly appeared on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Thursday, where he explained that he declined to audition when he learned a racial slur would be included.
“Like ‘Sinners,’ I was supposed to be in that,” he asserted. “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 movies, it just hasn’t panned out that way,” he said. But “I’m on universal timing,” he explained cryptically, then went on to explain, “It’ll align. The angels will put something in the works.”
“There’s been plenty of movies that come out that I was like, ah, I was supposed to be in that, or I did auditions for that,” he said.
The show’s co-host Darius Butler then gave him a fist-bump for taking a stand about what he would say.
Kelly said he was referring to “the second vampire” — likely the role of Bert, a KKK member who was turned by the vampire Remmick played by Jack O’Connell. Peter Dreimanis ended up playing that vamp’s role in the hit movie that starred Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld and Miles Caton.
“I’d like to be in cinema while I still look young,” he told the hosts. MGK’s album “Americana” releases on Aug. 8.
Watch MGK’s interview below:
Originally published by variety.com. Syndicated material does not necessarily reflect the views of Grazia British.
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