- Machine Gun Kelly says he nearly had a role in Ryan Coogler’s hit vampire drama Sinners.
- The musician and actor told The Pat McAfee Show that he was set to audition but didn’t want to use a racial slur called for in the script.
- “I just wouldn’t do it,” MGK explained.
Machine Gun Kelly is no sinner.
The rapper, singer, and actor said in a recent media appearance that he was “supposed to be in” Sinners, the hit film from Ryan Coogler starring Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers whose Prohibition-era juke joint is beset by vampires, but he turned down the audition because he couldn’t bring himself to utter the N-word.
“There’s been plenty of movies that come out that I go, ‘Ah, I was supposed to be in that,'” Kelly said Thursday on The Pat McAfee Show. “Or, ‘Oh, I did auditions for that.’ Like Sinners, I was supposed to be in that.”
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McAfee then inquired as to which part Kelly was meant to play. The musician replied, “The vampire. They had me set up to do the auditions — it’s the vampire, the one that’s in the house, so he’s the second vampire, and the guy comes and he eats the family up.”
Kelly seemed to be referencing the character of Bert, played by rock star Peter Dreimanis in the movie, who is turned into a vampire by Jack O’Connell’s Remmick.
But, Kelly said, “In the audition he has to say the N-word, and I just wouldn’t do it.”
Cohost Darius Butler extended his hand for a fist bump with Kelly, to which Kelly replied, “Fo sho.” McAfee then quipped, “Pretty woke there.”
Representatives for Warner Bros., the studio behind Sinners, didn’t immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly‘s request for comment Friday.
Kelly seems to be a fan of vampire vibes. Last year, he revealed a set of gem-adorned “vampire fangs” that he’d persuaded his cosmetic dentist to fashion for him.
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And last month, he debuted new single a new single titled “The Vampire Diaries,” off his sixth studio album, Lost Americana.
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Kelly made his film debut in the 2014 drama Beyond the Lights and has used his given name, Colson Baker, in acting projects since 2021. His other screen credits include Bird Box, Project Power, Roadies, and the Mötley Crüe biopic The Dirt.
Watch MGK’s appearance on The Pat McAfee Show above.
