The roles that rappers are taking – they’re not roles that matter. You’re not going to do the Marvin Gaye story and cast 50 Cent. You’re not going to do the Martin Luther King Jr movie and cast Usher. We expect trash and that’s why we get trash. And we appreciate trash. We bootleg trash. — Anthony Mackie, Interview Magazine

Looks familiar doesn’t he? You might remember him as the sperm-donor/ pleasantly harassed man in Spike Lee’s She Hate Me, which also brought Kerry Washington to many a drooling man’s attention. Then he got a beat-down from Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby. Or maybe, if you were one of the few who watched Notorious, where he played Tupac…

If you’re still drawing a blank, no worries, you’ll have more than enough time to get acquainted with this actor. He stars in the Oscar-winning Hurt Locker coming out soon. [FYI: ‘Hurt locker’ refers to when someone, this case a marine, is injured or hurt – i.e. He’s in the hurt locker.]

Anthony also stars in Jesse, a (hopefully not too cheesy) movie about Olympian Jesse Owens in the ’30s. If you don’t know who he is, Google him – it’ll be worth your while.

        

He’s also highly opinionated too. As a black actor on his way up in the industry, this film and theatre actor isn’t afraid on stepping on toes in order to voice what he thinks. This is what else he told Interview Magazine:

I don't want Snoop Dogg selling my kids Sprite. I don't want R. Kelly having a youth girls’ soccer team. At some point we have to figure out if our kids are sacred to us, and if they are, we cannot buy another R. Kelly CD. We have to figure out if our women are sacred to us, and if so, we cannot buy another bitch-and-ho CD.

Word! 

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