Anthony Mackie reveals the hilarious story behind Eminem’s well-known ‘8 Mile’ rap battle
When B-Rabbit torched Papa Doc in 8 Mile’s iconic closing rap battle, it was truly Eminem taking photographs at Anthony Mackie.
On the March 11 episode of Pivot Podcast, Mackie, 46, revealed that the now-iconic closing rap battle within the 2002 movie acquired just a little too private.
Eminem, 52, performed aspiring rapper B-Rabbit, who demolishes Mackie’s character, Papa Doc, by exposing his privileged background. However as Mackie admitted, these bars weren’t nearly his character — they have been about him.
“We’re on set one day, and [Eminem] goes, ‘Yo, it don’t make sense we’re beefing,’” Mackie recalled.
To make their rivalry extra genuine, Eminem requested for private particulars about Mackie’s life. “We talked for like two hours,” the Captain America: Courageous New World star mentioned.
The subsequent day, when Eminem began rapping, Mackie had a surprising realisation. “You’re talking about me, you’re not talking about Clarence!” he mentioned, noting that his character’s non-public faculty background and fortunately married dad and mom have been lifted straight from his personal life.
“You’re an a******, Eminem!” Mackie joked. “I’m like, ‘I’m gonna fight this m***********! Yes, my parents are still married!’”
8 Mile marked Mackie’s movie debut, only one 12 months after he graduated from Juilliard. He later performed Tupac in Infamous and Martin Luther King Jr. in HBO’s All of the Manner.
Trying again, Mackie credit his performing coaching for his profession: “If I didn’t have my training, I wouldn’t be able to play Tupac, MLK, Papa Doc, Falcon.”