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Anthony Mackie TEASES Black Panther 2 astatine Grammys 2022
We've got a real-life superhero connected our hands.
Anthony Mackie mightiness play Captain America, but successful his hometown of New Orleans, the histrion is changing lives without the assistance of a shield.
In concern with GAF, the nation's largest roofing manufacturer, the Falcon and the Winter Soldier prima is moving hands-on to assistance New Orleans residents who are inactive struggling with bluish tarps connected their homes aft being battered by earthy disasters, astir precocious 2021's Hurricane Ida. Some are adjacent inactive reeling from Hurricane Katrina successful 2005.
Mackie, who spent summers moving for his family's roofing concern successful New Orleans increasing up, understands the value of safe, unchangeable lodging much than anybody. That's wherefore helium and GAF are committed repairing oregon replacing 500 roofs done the Gulf Coast region, including 150 successful the city's 7th Ward, wherever Mackie grew up.
In an exclusive speech with E! News, Mackie explained wherefore he's truthful passionate astir the endeavor, what helium learned from his father, his aggravated emotion for New Orleans past and wherefore helium wants to rise his 4 boys there.
E! News: Congratulations connected the collaboration with GAF. I would emotion to perceive astir however it each came together.
Anthony Mackie: Just looking astatine companies that were retired determination that benignant of hovered astir my idiosyncratic interests—construction, moving with my hands, things similar that—we had the accidental to conscionable commencement this speech with things they were funny successful doing and things I tin assistance with. When the Community Matters inaugural came, I thought it would beryllium a cleanable collaboration betwixt the 2 of us.
E!: Can you locomotion maine done precisely what the collaboration entails and what you are each moving to accomplish?
AM: GAF is the largest roofing supplier shaper successful the country. They've enactment unneurotic the Community Matters initiative, wherever we're going done the Gulf Coast portion and giving 500 homes caller roofs that person been affected by earthy disasters, storms and things similar that, and specifically 150 houses successful my vicinity of Gentilly successful the 7th Ward of New Orleans. So, we get to get up connected immoderate roofs, teardrop immoderate shingles disconnected and springiness radical caller roofs.
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E!: This isn't the archetypal clip you've done hands-on enactment similar this, correct?
AM: When I was a kid, it was hellhole connected Earth. Life changes, you know? It was a large accidental for my Dad to thatch maine this trade. It was a mode for maine to marque wealth and to person wealth passim the schoolhouse year. But erstwhile I was a kid, I hated it. It was awful. But now, being capable to bash it and spot the affectional enactment it supplies to radical done the assemblage is truly heartwarming, man. The radical that we've been capable to touch, the stories we've been capable to hear, it's been truly beautiful.
E!: How has the assemblage benefited from this outreach?
AM: They've committed to donating $25 cardinal earlier 2025, which is simply a immense amount. There's truthful galore radical who request assistance who don't cognize however to find it. Specifically successful my vicinity of Gentilly, conscionable the radical that we've seen. There's a batch of security companies that ran distant aft Ida. There's not a batch of radical sitting astir with $12,000 oregon $15,000 successful the slope to enactment a caller extortion connected their house. So you person these bluish tarps that person go a staple of tempest harm successful the Gulf Coast region. If I tin cognize that conscionable 1 of them came disconnected due to the fact that of me, that brings a grin to my look each day.
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E!: Why is New Orleans a metropolis that you clasp truthful close?
AM: Because it's the champion metropolis successful the world. Up until 1911, New Orleans was the epicenter of Earth. Everything that came from Europe came done New Orleans. That's wherefore our Spanish culture, our French culture, our Native American civilization and our African civilization person each been preserved. Everyone has their ain footprint successful the metropolis successful their ain way. There's nary different metropolis similar that successful America.
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E!: When you're successful New Orleans, are you inactive Anthony oregon are you Captain America?
AM: I'm conscionable Anthony. Don't get it twisted. I'm inactive paying for catfish connected Friday. I'm not getting thing free. Captain America is much than conscionable a shield and a movie. You truly person to measurement into the assemblage and assistance radical from wherever you're from.
Captain America: New World Order his theaters successful 2024. The archetypal play of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is disposable to watercourse connected Disney+.
(This interrogation has been edited and condensed for magnitude and clarity.)
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