-We're back with Anthony Mackie, everybody.
Anthony, we have something in common. We were both --
we both worked at grocery stores,
I was a bag boy. That was my first job.
-Yeah, I -- -What did you do?
-I did overnight stock.
But I got fired because I kept --
I specifically asked for the baby food aisle every night.
So I kept eating all the baby food,
so I would have whole meals,
like, the peas with the potatoes, and beef and carrots,
and I would just kill it, dude.
I would come back and I'd be like --
-Baby food Thanksgiving.
-Right, and I would take all the empty containers
and put them behind the stuff that I was stocking.
That's when they caught on to fat Mackie.
I go through and eat it all. [ Laughs ]
-I was a bag boy forever, and I was great.
And people would request me.
They would come -- They'd be on a different line.
They'd go, "I got to get that kid.
That guy knows what's up, eggs on top, eggs on top."
-Right. -But you started this fund,
or worked with people to start this fund.
Talk about the Grocery Workers Relief Fund.
-Well, you know, it was important to me.
I realized during the whole pandemic,
I've been in the grocery store three to four times a week,
and you're talking about people who are working hourly wages.
People who mostly live check to check.
A lot of kids who are working to put more money
into their parents' household, just trying to help, you know.
And they're risking their lives for basically minimum wage.
So we put this fund together with United Way,
the New Orleans Council for Aging, Entergy of New Orleans,
and you go to the United Way of Southeastern Louisiana website
and you donate to the grocery store.
We're asking everybody for every time during the pandemic,
you've been to the grocery store, give $1.
Right, if you've been to the grocery store
three times, give $3.
If you haven't been, give $1.
But we're asking people, so what we're going to do
is we're going to give all the grocery store workers
a $150 stipend towards their energy.
Because when all this is over, you're going to have two
to three months of energy bills piled up.
And we're talking about people who live check to check.
So they can't afford that amount.
So I started it all. I donated $50,000 toward the fund.
Entergy matched my $50,000,
so we have $100,000 that we're donating 100%
towards grocery store workers' electric bills,
and we're asking everyone to help out as much as you can.
Like I said, a dollar for every time
you've been to the store would be a massive help.
-Thank you for doing this.
I do want to talk about a film that you --
it's a documentary that you executive produced.
-Yeah.
-And you appear in. It's from one of your teachers.
-Yeah.
Moni Yakim.
It was a duo actually.
It was Moni and his wife Mina Yakim.
And Moni was a mystical man. He would always come in class
with this black shirt, black T-shirt,
black pants, black shoes,
and he would just like float around the room,
because he was our movement teacher at Juilliard,
but the way he possessed his body, his movement, his nature.
I mean, he was just like a ninja.
-Sorry to be ignorant. What is a movement teacher?
-[ Laughs ] See, the things you laugh about,
and say the weird actor stuff.
That's basically the movement teacher.
He's the one who puts us in a circle,
and we have to float -- we have to act like
we can touch the air and all this stuff.
-Oh,yeah. Be a tree.
-Yeah. -The ice cream cone.
-But him, because he started off as a mime in France
before he came to America,
he taught us all this amazing mime work
and all this physical work
so that we can control our bodies
and bring emotion through our bodies
and focus almost like dance in a way,
but more mime and physical life as opposed to dance.
-I think it's such a great story
going from the first part of our interview,
talking about who sacrificed
and worked to get you to where you are
to how proud they must be of you
because not only have you crushed it,
and really, I mean, crushed it,
you are the first black Captain America.
-Yeah. -What?!
Dude, that's the best sentence I could ever say.
-[ Laughs ]
-I mean, it's got to feel amazing.
-Yeah, it's funny. Every day, I love my sisters.
And every day, my sisters remind me that there's nothing
but God got me from where I was to where I am.
They're like, "Yo, there's no reason why you should be
this successful. There's no reason."
[ Laughter ] -No, you deserve it.
You deserve it, man.
Do your kids look at you differently?
Do they go like, "Wow!
You're Captain America"? -No.
I mean, kids are interesting, because you know, as a parent,
all you want is your kids' acceptance.
You know, all you want --
I don't care about anybody else. My kids are like,
"Dad, that was a good movie."
It's a good movie, you know.
But my kids are so over it. Like, they just --
they just really -- if it's --
when it comes to snacks and play time, nothing else matters.
That's all they want to know, if the snack is good.
-What's happening with the Disney+ series?
Any movement?
I know the quarantine stopped everything, right?
-Well, I'm happy to say we're not cancelled.
We are on hold.
So we're going back hopefully sometime soon and finish it up.
We have very little stuff to do, but it's -- it's looking --
I'm very happy with it. We have a little bit more
to go back and do, but everybody rest assured,
it will come out. We are not canceled.
In the business where people are like,
"Hey, take a little break. We'll come back to it."
That means they're never coming back to it.
[ Laughter ]
-You might as well say goodbye.
"I'll never see that person again."
-Right, I'm like, "Man, I was Captain America
for all of two weeks. This sucks.
How did I get fired on my day off?"
-That's not fair.
Well, when it comes out, I'd love to talk to you again,
and whenever you want to.
You know you have an open invitation.
I love you, man, hug your family, and please,
I can't wait to see you in person.
Okay? Stay safe. -Thank you.
-Thank you so much. Bye, bud.