Machine Gun Kelly turned down Sinners over racial slur
The 35-year-old rapper says he was invited to audition for a vampire role in Ryan Coogler's latest movie but he declined when he learned that his character uses the 'n-word'.
Speaking on The Pat McAfee Show, he said: '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 movies, it just hasn't panned out that way. I'm on universal timing. 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.'
It is 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).
The part was played by Peter Dreimanis.
Sinners – starring Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld and Miles Caton – is a horror movie set in the Mississippi Delta in 1932, where criminal twin brothers return to their hometown to start again but are faced by a supernatural evil.
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