Anthony Mackie is addressing fans accusing him of not taking selfies with them when he’s spotted out in the public.
The Hollywood Reporter recently released the ‘Full Comedy Actor Roundtable’ on YouTube and during the discussion Mackie opened up about his previous experiences with fans. “There’s been several experiences where people have taken pictures with me and used them for ways that I don’t deem the right way. So because of that I just choose not to be apart of your social reality,” he said.
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He also added, “I have people tell me all the time ‘well this is what you signed up for’ and I’m like that’s crazy. That’s like telling a girl just because she put on a cute dress and went to a bar she signed up for me to harass her all night. No, in this day and age we literally learned that we have to respect everyone’s no. So if I tell you no, respect it.”
If you remember there was a woman on TikTok who previously went viral when she claimed she met the actor at a gas station and she labeled him as the “rudest human being alive.”
As the fan recounted in the video, Mackie firmly set boundaries when she approached him. He calmly held up his hand and said “no”, indicating he wasn’t interested in engaging with her. The fan felt upset and took offense to his direct response, perceiving it as an insult.
“So I just met Anthony Mackie,” says the fan. “And let me just say, rudest human being alive.”
The fan continued, “So I live in New Orleans. I’m here for Spring Break. Apparently, Anthony Mackie lives here, too. I pulled up to a gas station. Here, Anthony Mackie comes in his huge f’n truck, all blacked out, all f’n sleek, windows down,” she says. “So it’s like ‘if you don’t want people to come up to you and f’n say how much they appreciate your work, why the f’k are all your windows down and you’re blasting music, smoking a f’n cigar?”
The fan explains that she parked her car and was getting ready to pump her gas, so she “gently” walked up to him “being like, ‘Oh, my god, I’m so sorry to bother.’”
And that’s when the actor allegedly just raised his hand telling her no.
“Tell me why Anthony Mackie did this [motions one hand out and says] ‘No,’” she explains. “To my face!”
She continues, “And then just went back to what he was doing having me standing there. I was standing there in front of Anthony Mackie being like, ‘Oh. Should I go?’”