According to Variety, Machine Gun Kelly revealed on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show that he was set up to audition for a vampire role in Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster Sinners but walked away when he saw what the script required. “Like Sinners, I was supposed to be in that. The vampire, they had me set up to do the audition - it’s the one that’s in the house, so he’s the second vampire, the one that the guy comes and eats the family. In the audition, he has to say the N-word and I wouldn’t do it,” Kelly said. The role was for Bert, a KKK member who is later turned into a vampire — a character who delivers a racial slur before his transformation as part of the film’s commentary on hate in Depression-era Mississippi.
According to Variety, Machine Gun Kelly revealed on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show that he was set up to audition for a vampire role in Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster Sinners but walked away when he saw what the script required. “Like Sinners, I was supposed to be in that. The vampire, they had me set up to do the audition - it’s the one that’s in the house, so he’s the second vampire, the one that the guy comes and eats the family. In the audition, he has to say the N-word and I wouldn’t do it,” Kelly said. The role was for Bert, a KKK member who is later turned into a vampire — a character who delivers a racial slur before his transformation as part of the film’s commentary on hate in Depression-era Mississippi.
