

Eminem, meanwhile, is continuing to prepare for his EMAs performance, where he’s rumored to be planning to announce details about his ninth studio album, the follow-up to 2013’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2. He’s teased the title with ads for a faux drug called Revival, and his social media on Tuesday featured a photo of a Revival prescription pad with the message “Walk On Water,” take as needed. The 8 Mile 15th anniversary celebration continues Thursday night with a party and freestyle rap battle, as well as a performance by Miz Korona, at the Detroit’s Saint Andrews Hall. Eminem’s Marshall Mathers Foundation provides partial funding for the program. Wednesday’s screening benefited the Community Music School’s Verses Project, a joint project with Michigan State University to teach urban youth literary skills through songwriting and music production. he really wanted to give it 110 percent.” I think he’s got respect for other actors, wo when you have respect for other actors you don’t want to jump into something. So maybe when he slows down from music - you always say that, but…he’s not gonna do that. Porter said that he’s not surprised “He always says the same thing, it takes too much time from music.
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“I went to get a granola bar and he was getting some coffee, and I was like, ‘Whoa…’ So being a hip-hop fan and then getting to be in what a lot of people consider to be the best hip-hop movie of all time is a great treat.”Įminem Wins Copyright Battle Against New Zealand Political Party | Billboard NewsĮminem has not acted since 8 Mile, though he’s been rumored for a variety of projects. “That was my first starstruck moment in my life because I met Dr. enjoyed the opportunity as a hip-hop fan to immerse himself in the leading edge of that world.

It was a Detroit story and it showed Detroit in a proper light that nobody had seen before.”Īctor Miller, meanwhile. That’s what kind of kept us focused on the music. That’s what it was, factories and the Hip Hop Shop. It definitely depicted how the underground scene was at the time,” the MC noted, and it showcased the factories that we worked in. We’re still talking about it 15 years later.” He added that 8 Mile’s portrayal of Detroit’s underground hip-hop culture was accurate, which also gave the film achieve lift-off. “I knew the power of the brand of Em and all that, so I knew it would be big,” he said. T3 said he also had a feeling at the time that 8 Mile would do well. “I had a feeling it was gonna be a big deal once they said what the movie was about - but I definitely didn’t imagine the move was going to be like this,” she said. Miz Korona, who made a brief cameo rapping in the film when she was 21, said that “to see 15 years fly by so quickly is just mind-blowing.” But she wasn’t surprised by 8 Mile’s success. It’s still weird to watch it, but I think it means a lot to be able to tell the story like that, and it transcends through the whole world like that. It’s kind of like watching your life on the screen, so it was weird the whole time. “I didn’t think it was going to be a movie at all,” said Porter, who was part of D12 alongside Eminem and co-wrote and co-produced tracks for the rapper’s upcoming album. It grossed more than $250 million in theaters worldwide, and Eminem’s “Lose Yourself won an Academy Award for best original song - success that floored those even in Eminem’s camp at the time.Įminem Drops Hints About New Album, Possibly Called 'Revival' | Billboard News A really shy guy until you get to know him, and then he’s not shy at all.”Ĩ Mile, which was filmed primarily in metro Detroit, also starred Kim Bassinger, Mekhi Phifer and the late Brittany Murphy.

I knew him only from his music from when I was in school I used to listen to his music, and next thing I knew I was working with him. He was always very open, which was just great. “Marshall (Mathers) was fantastic in the movie,” Miller noted.
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Miller, who was a 22-year-old actor just out of college when the also credited the late director Curtis Hanson with making “a masterpiece of storytelling” and also gave full props to Eminem for a transformative performance that many did not expect from a neophyte actor. A hundred years from now, if you wanted to see what life was like in the Midwest at the turn of the century, you can watch that film and what people were up to.” I think the movie endured because of the authenticity. “People to this day come up to me more about ( 8 Mile) than any other film I’ve done. Eminem Teases Possible New Single Called 'Walk On Water'
