Though Sinners has landed among the many high field workplace releases of 2025 to this point, Machine Gun Kelly had his causes for passing up a task within the movie.
The Grammy nominee not too long ago claimed he was “presupposed to” audition to play a vampire in author/director Ryan Coogler‘s critically-acclaimed supernatural interval piece about two brothers taking over blood-sucking neighbors within the South.
“Like Sinners, I used to be presupposed to be in that,” stated Kelly on The Pat McAfee Present, based on Billboard. “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 eats the household. Within the audition, he has to say the ‘n-word’ and I wouldn’t do it.”
Kelly seemed to be referring to the character of Bert, performed by Peter Dreimanis. Married to Lola Kirke‘s Joan, the couple makes the error of welcoming Remmick (Jack O’Connell) into their residence earlier than he turns them into vampires.
Michael B. Jordan stars in Sinners as twin WWI vet enforcer brothers, Smoke and Stack, who come residence to begin a blues membership in Nineteen Thirties Mississippi, however uncover a supernatural evil ready for them.
Lola Kirke, Jack O’Connell and Peter Dreimanis in ‘Sinners’
Since premiering in April, Sinners has surpassed $365M on the world field workplace, earlier than its streaming debut on HBO Max final month.
Regardless of passing up the chance to seem in Sinners, Kelly is open to casting alternatives. “Hey dude, I’d wish to be in cinema whereas I nonetheless look younger,” he stated.
Kelly has beforehand appeared in movies like Nerve (2016), Fowl Field (2018), The King of Staten Island (2020) and Energy (2020), in addition to reveals like Roadies, Bupkis and Dave.
