Ryan Coogler’s vampire film Sinners is among the most critically acclaimed and commercially profitable movies of 2025, however its solid doesn’t characteristic Machine Gun Kelly. If the musician is to be believed, nevertheless, he was within the operating for a task however turned down an audition over using the n-word within the script.
“Like Sinners, I used to be purported to be in that,” MGK stated throughout a latest look on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Present. “The vampire, that they had me set as much as do the audition — it’s the one which’s in the home, so he’s the second vampire, the one which the man comes and he eats the household up. Within the audition, he has to say the ‘n-word’ and I wouldn’t do it.”
McAfee Present co-host Darius Butler appreciated Kelly’s reasoning for turning down the audition, giving him a fist bump following the admission.
Based mostly on MGK’s description, it looks as if he was requested to audition for the function of Bert, a neighborhood KKK member and husband of Lola Kirke’s Joan. One other musician, Peter Dreimanis of July Discuss, landed the half as an alternative.
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Watch the complete interview under. The Sinners phase begins across the 10:30 mark.
Though Kelly’s obvious gesture is admirable, it’s contrasted by a video that resurfaced in 2022, through which he made sexist and misogynistic feedback to Black ladies throughout a 2012 BET Awards interview.
MGK is presently gearing up for his upcoming album, Misplaced Americana, which he lately promoted with a trailer that gave the impression to be narrated by Bob Dylan. The undertaking is ready for launch this Friday, August eighth.