Anthony Mackie talks about working on 'Real Steel'

[sharon_b Profile]

I've just copied the parts where he talks about 'Real Steel' and there is a small mention of Evi too...

At last night's launch of Marc Ecko Cut & Sew's new ad campaign, featuring a hologram of Lindsay Lohan, longtime Ecko customer Anthony Mackie stayed far away from the computer stations demoing digital Lindsay, preferring to flirt with his many lady admirers in the VIP section. He's been on a roll since The Hurt Locker's Oscar run made him a household name, so Vulture took this opportunity grill him about reading suggestions for Lohan in rehab and his spate of new projects.

You're doing the sci-fi movie Real Steel with Hugh Jackman. You're a promoter of robot boxers?
I'm the Don King of the future. It's an amazing movie. Shawn Levy is an amazing director. And Hugh is honestly one of the coolest cats in the business. All of my scenes are with him. He is basically a robot boxing [trainer] and I am the promoter. So he has to come to me to get his fights on.

Are there actual robots or is it CGI?
They're there! They built eight-foot-tall robots! Yes. You're standing there and a big-ass robot comes by. They got the guy who did all the robots for Jurassic Park and Jaws and all these crazy movies and got him to build mechanical eight-foot-tall robots.

What do you do with the robots?
I run away from them! No, basically I introduce the robots; I promote the robots; I speak with robots who want to fight other robots. I'm the Don King of it all.

Do you have Don King's hair?
No, I don't. There are two hairstyles you will never find another man wearing: Don King's and Al Sharpton's. They're done. They're done.

Evangeline Lilly retired from acting and then unretired eight days later to do this movie. Did you talk about it?
No, but that's everyone's goal, to pull an Anthony Hopkins: "You know what? I'm never gonna do this again."

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Mackie probably has a bigger part in the movie than Evi if he is still filming and she isnt.

[Jenna]

Mackie probably has a bigger part in the movie than Evi if he is still filming and she isnt.

Or he just started filming his scenes.... the entire cast didn't start filming all at the same time. They come in when they are needed.

[razgriz Profile]

Hmm.

Could use more Evi info but better than nothing.