Anthony Mackie Takes a Lie Detector Test | Vanity Fair

yes my name is anthony mackie do you play the character falcon in the avengers endgame yes I play Falcon in the Avengers name game are you ready to take this lie detector test yes I'm ready I got all three toes right first category your life so you attended Juilliard is that correct I did would you use the word artsy describe yourself while you were there no you told James Corden that you were a bit of a poet when you were younger that correct yes did you ever wear a beret in school ah no Joan is that true can you create a haiku for us right now no no was this man Lee pace your roommate what's with the pictures yes ha Lee pace was my high school and college roommate yeah it's weird I know trust me I got a lot of Billy bass did you ever over serve yourself when you were in college yes did he ever need to help you in those instances no but I had to help him sure his story I carried him like 20 blocks there's nothing worse than 6 foot 3 deadweight Lee pace slung over brother shoulder walking down the streets of Manhattan when you two were roommates did you ever borrow any of his clothes no did you ever put a sock on the door now yes we had a lot of socks being [Laughter] truth we were a sock and then you went on to North Carolina's School of the Arts correct I got my high school diploma and I assumed you indulged in a lot of North Carolinian cuisine while you were there of course I have some good barbecue would you say that North Carolina has better barbecue than your home state Louisiana no is it true you've gone skydiving more than 20 times true have you ever had that thought made jump that your parachute wouldn't deploy every job would you say you're on the same skydiving level as Tom Cruise no Tom Cruise is the ultimate guys got I'm just like kind of a guy's guy next to Tom Cruise do you think you'll still be skydiving at the age of 50 I'm gonna jump I'm gonna yes yes yes I'm gonna do what is cricket flying squirrel jumps 50th birthday let's change topics so your father I am would you support your kids if they wanted to be actors um if they exhaust every other resource do you have a favorite job yes really what do you say which one no but they know he's everybody's favorite he's a gold do you ever embarrass your kids every day do you ever make dad jokes dad jokes no let's move on to your career you've started many Broadway and off-broadway plays true true in 2002 you were Don Cheadle's understudy in the play top dog underdog correct would you say he was a mentor um yes I would definitely say that was he ever a diva yes every day does he still treat you like an undersea s every day only to me he's a great guy I read that Christopher Walken was your co-star in a play called maybe handing in Spokane is that correct correct so you spent a lot of time together yes so do you have your Christopher Walken impression down no your film debut was an eight-mile is that correct correct would you say you were a fan of Eminem before the filming of the movie no would you say you prefer him more as a blond or a brunette he looks crazier as a brunette so I would have to say a blonde even though I prefer brunettes / blondes which is weird do you think it's possible that your character Clarence was so destroyed by that rap battle that he joined the airforce and became an Avenger part two he came back in you said that Eminem is one of your top ten favorite rappers is that still the case correct would you say that Eminem is a better rapper than Kendrick Lamar oh that's hard I would say no John that was true oh that was a sweater now that was I got a little fell asleep no oh no he's Eminem's better rapper than Macklemore everyone is a better rapper than McLemore does McLemore rap that's like calling a techno music wait for the drop did you know your reference in a Busta Rhymes verse on Kendricks song rigor mortis I did not know that but I'm very happy about it cuz Buster's in my top five and I started acting because of Busta Rhymes so that is amazing well let me read you the verse I carry the Anthony Mackie and put holes in you badly sending you off in a hearse I'll send you off in a taxi do you know what he meant by that I know exactly what we've we've spent many New York evenings together in revelry that's dope I've never heard that song now I gotta go back and listen to that song cuz I'm in a rap song yo I'm officially famous I'm a bit jealous I wasn't thirty seconds ago now you start in the night before with Seth Rogen that's true and you told Jimmy Fallon that you've only smoked weed once in your life right very true is that still true yeah deathly afraid of marijuana and crack did Seth ever try to peer pressure you into smokey um no I told them I didn't they like if he would have peer pressure me I probably if he would ask me twice I probably would I would I would have that story to say I smoked with Seth Rogen is weed a gateway drug Oh No is that true true oh now let's talk about the Avengers have you read all the Marvel Comics no but you have read all the Captain America comics yes have you read all the comics with Sam Wilson or Falcon in them no so I guess you wouldn't say you're a super fan yeah no can you name ten Marvel superheroes in ten seconds oh my god okay count Scarlet Witch Doctor Strange Hulk spider-man Iron Man Falcon times uh I can name 10 people who play superhero do you think Deadpool is the funniest character in the Marvel Universe I don't find dude pulled all that funny a vendor's endgame is your sixth Marvel Universe film is that correct is a six I think yeah I think that's right yeah six times yeah would you say you and Chris Evans have good chemistry yeah have you ever spoiled any Avengers secrets before the premiere no well yes yes for infinity Wars everybody kept asking me to give them a spoiler doesn't cool everybody dies unicorn you search dig like know everybody dies nobody believed me would you say Tom Holland is the most likely to spoil anything is this like a life-sized portrait yes he you know what he's learned now we've taught him very well he was so excited when he first started he just wanted to talk about it so now I would say no Mark Ruffalo will spoil a bar-mitzvah now in the comics Falcon takes over the mantle of Captain America do you think that'll happen in the movies no well yeah someday if Falcon had to sacrifice another Avenger for the soulstone do you think it would definitely be Bucky I would definitely kill I have to sacrifice an Avenger okay okay I'd kill Scarlett is it true there's going to be a Disney Plus show based on Falcon and the Winter Soldier marriage does that mean you get to go to Disney World for free or I just went to Disney we're on two days ago for free would you say Disneyland is better than Disney World No would you say you and your Avengers cast mates are close in real life yes Chris Evans said there's a 10% increase in fun when you're on set do you think that's true give me 25 10% yes 10% is Chris Evans fun on set he's a lot of fun yes on set he's Robert Downey jr. more fun than Chris Evans know what percentage of time on set is wasted on Chris Hemsworth hair and makeup not he woke up like that is it fair to say that sebastian stan is the least fun on set he is the squares personal he is nyquil too fun that's what he he was fun to bed like Hennessy at night did you keep a set of your Falcon wings no have you ever stolen anything from set yes really every movie I do I steal something but to be fair I tell them from jump I'm going to steal something any point during this interview did you lie and we didn't catch you know Oh

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Length: 13min 24sec (804 seconds)

Published: Mon May 06 2019

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The man could charm a paraplegic into walking.