MGK just dropped a bombshell about Hollywood’s biggest vampire hit. The rapper turned his back on what could have been his breakout movie role. One single word in the script changed everything.
The musician made this shocking revelation during his Thursday appearance on The Pat McAfee Show. He confessed that he walked away from an audition for Ryan Coogler’s box office sensation Sinners. The reason? The script required him to say a racial slur he simply couldn’t stomach.
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MGK refused to audition for Sinners because his character would have been forced to use the n-word during the tryout. The 35-year-old artist explained his firm stance to host Pat McAfee. “In the audition, he has to say the ‘n-word’ and I wouldn’t do it,” MGK stated without hesitation. This moral boundary cost him a potential role in what became a massive Hollywood success story.
Machine Gun Kelly reveals he passed on a vampire role in the film Sinners because the script required him to say the N-word in the audition. pic.twitter.com/zBc5MLXIZD
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The role in question was Bert, a character eventually portrayed by Peter Dreimanis. This vampire transforms alongside his wife Joan after inviting the mysterious Remmick into their 1932 Mississippi home. MGK described the character as “the second vampire, the one that the guy comes and eats the family.” The audition scene apparently contained dialogue that crossed MGK’s personal red lines.
Despite missing out on Sinners, MGK remains hungry for his Hollywood breakthrough. He made a direct plea to the camera during the interview. “Hey, dude. I’d like to be in cinema while I still look young,” he said with characteristic boldness. The rapper emphasized his continued acting ambitions, telling McAfee he has “a lot of aspirations to be in movies.”
MGK’s principled decision looks even more significant considering Sinners’ astronomical success. The film shattered box office records with $45.6 million in its opening weekend alone. It eventually earned over $365 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing original film since the pandemic. The movie even achieved the rare feat of receiving an A from CinemaScore, marking the first horror film to earn that rating in 35 years. While MGK watched from the sidelines, Sinners knocked A Minecraft Movie from the top spot and cemented its place in cinema history.
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