Like Sinners, I was supposed to be in that…. [I was up for] the vampire. They had set me up to do the auditions. It’s the vampire, the one that’s in the house. So he’s the second vampire, the one that the guy comes and like eats the family up.

MGK has flexed his acting chops on the silver screen in a plethora of roles, but he turned down a chance to star in the Ryan Coogler-directed blockbuster Sinners over the audition's requirement of using the "n-word."

Although Sinners has landed among the top box office releases of 2025 so far, Machine Gun Kelly had his reasons for passing up a role in the film. The Grammy nominee recently claimed he was “supposed to” audition to play a vampire in writer/director Ryan Coogler‘s critically-acclaimed supernatural period piece about two brothers taking on