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Anthony Mackie recalls his failed Spike Lee TV movie ‘Sucker Free City’ that was meant to be like ‘The Wire’: “The movie came out and it was just… silence”

Anthony Mackie recalled his tough experience working on Spike Lee's failed 2004 TV movie, 'Sucker Free City,' which was meant to be like 'The Wire': 'The wheels fell off.'

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier actor reflected on his experience headlining the influential director’s 2004 films, Sucker Free City and She Hate Me, only for both of them to receive lukewarm responses. Anthony Mackie.Corey Nickols/Getty Images The project, Mackie said, was Sucker Free City, a made-for-TV film that was supposed to serve as the pilot for a larger series that Showtime later declined to pick up. "With its walking-sperm-bank antihero, its stony fashionista lesbians (who, naturally, all dig having sex with Jack), and its turgid lessons in the pornography of economics, She Hate Me manages to be at once racist, homophobic, utterly fake, and unbearably tedious," he wrote.

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