Los Angeles, Aug. 4 -- American rapper Machine Gun Kelly has revealed that he declined an audition for Ryan Coogler's vampire drama 'Sinners' after refusing to deliver a racially offensive line during the casting process.
Appearing on The Pat McAfee Show, the rapper-turned-actor shared he had been approached to try out for the role of a vampire named Bert, a former Ku Klux Klan member who becomes undead. However, upon learning the dialogue for the scene included a racial epithet, he immediately withdrew, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
"There's been plenty of movies that come out that I was like, ah, I was supposed to be in that, or I did auditions for that. Like Sinners, I was supposed to be in that," he explained. "The vampire, they had...