It's arduous to pinpoint which yr was the most efficient 12 months for Eminem's occupation, but the year of 2002 for sure belongs in the dialog. After two a success albums, The Slim Shady LP & The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem proved that he may just still promote information without having too many shock values along with his album The Eminem Show. In the similar yr, he and his spouse in crime, Dr. Dre, co-signed 50 Cent underneath their Shady/Aftermath joint venture. Also, let's now not forget about his a success semi-biographical movie 8 Mile which gave delivery to Eminem's signature track Lose Yourself.
The movie follows the story of Jimmy' B-Rabbit' Smith, a white rapper and a blue-collar worker, who is decided to break into Detroit's hip-hop fight scene. The Motor City's very personal skills like Xzibit, Obie Trice, and DeShaun' Proof' Holton made their cameos in the movie. Lose Yourself, its authentic soundtrack, no longer handiest did solidify Eminem's occupation as a manufacturer, nevertheless it also did make him the primary rapper to win an Oscar for Best Original Song. "As an actor," film critic Robert Ebert says, "Eminem is convincing without being electric."
It's been 18 years because the movie used to be launched in the fall of 2002, however why does Eminem no longer star as a lead personality in any films anymore? Does Hollywood stop casting him, or is he just now not interested in pursuing an acting occupation?
A Journey Back From Hell
Before all the glams and good fortune, we all know that Eminem had developed a crazy paintings ethic. He misplaced 24 pounds for the role and labored almost Sixteen hours an afternoon, leaving him no time to jot down songs for the movie's authentic soundtrack album with the exception of all over breaks at the set.
Unfortunately for him, this aggravating work taste led him to expand a severe dependancy and health problems for the following a number of years. "It probably started to become a problem around the 8 Mile movie," he advised Rolling Stones in 2011. "We were doing 16 hours on the set, and you had a certain window where you had to sleep. One day somebody gave me an Ambien, and it knocked me the f**k out. I was like, "I would like this always."
Since then, his health started deteriorating. He would take Ambien, Vicodin, or Valium before he went to sleep. As a result, his 2004 album Encore slightly declined in terms of quality. Along with half-baked lyrics, he sounds heavily drugged for almost half of the inconsistent project. Even worse, his long-time best-friend Proof tragically passed away in 2006, leaving him depressed and out of the spotlight for a while.
"I keep in mind days I spent just taking f****g tablets and crying," Eminem told Rolling Stones further. "One day, I could not get off the bed. I did not even wish to stand up to use the toilet. I wasn't the only individual grieving – he left a spouse and youngsters. But I was very much in my very own grief. I used to be so top at his funeral. It disgusts me to mention it, however I felt like it was once about me. I hate myself for even thinking that. It used to be selfish."
He declared sobriety in 2008.
Would Eminem Ever Get Back To Acting?
Fast forward to 2020, Marshall is now clean and healthy as ever, and that's what Mathers. His pen game is still going strong, and ever since he went sober, he has released six studio albums.
Will Smith, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, LL Cool J, Ice T, Queen Latifah, DMX, and many other rappers have done acting as a side project.
It is highly unlikely for Eminem to get back on the big screen due to the health problem he developed during his 8 Mile days. However, he's still up for making cameos. He appeared as himself in 2009 in the comedy movie Funny People, in an episode of the HBO drama Entourage in 2010, and in a satirical film in 2014 called The Interview. The last possible lead role he could have landed was heavyweight champion Billy' The Great' Hope on Kurt Sutter-written boxing drama Southpaw, which he turned down in 2012 to focus on his Bad Meets Evil project.
"In a way, this is a continuation of the 8 Mile story, however we're doing a metaphorical narrative of the second one bankruptcy of his existence. He'll play a global champion boxer who truly hits a difficult backside, and has to fight to win again his existence for his younger daughter," the screenwriter told Deadline.
Despite that, he still produces movies behind the screen or contributes to its soundtracks. He exclusively released Venom, a soundtrack for the film with the same title, on his 2018 surprise album, Kamikaze. The Rap God himself also contributed as one the producers of 2017's battle rap comedy-drama, Bodied, along with his manager Paul Rosenberg.
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