On Your Left.

You are the best. Good looking, charming and a real-life hero. Please, drive over them a few times okay? To make sure they cannot put themselves back together or something equally disturbing. It feels like their eyes are following me everywhere. 

Thank you. What can I do to make it up to you? I mean, apart from rhyming. Dinner? Massage? Life long supply of fresh fruits, vegetables and fruits? You are the true Captain America.

Aw, well, just doing my job, so to speak. It’s method acting in the best of ways, I hope. Honestly, though, these snowmen creeped the fuck outta me, and that’s no good. They’re supposed to be cute and happy, not trying to eat your soul. 

Wait, do you come with that whole meal? I mean... dinner would be nice, Matt. But you don’t have to. I merely ran over them with my truck. Repeatedly.

My dude, don’t you worry. Consider it done. They’ll have an unfortunate accident. 

Like many comic book heroes, Mackie has an origin story marked by tragedy at a young age — specifically around the loss of a parental figure. The New Orleans native is the youngest of six children from a tight-knit middle-class family, whose trajectory was spun into chaos when his mother was stricken with a terminal illness.

“It was unexpected and very untimely. I was 15 when she was diagnosed with cancer, and a few months later, she was gone. She passed the day before my ninth-grade graduation,” Mackie recalls. “If my mom wouldn’t have passed away when I was so young, I wouldn’t be where I am today.”

Mackie had already gravitated toward the performing arts before the loss of his mother, having enrolled at the pre-professional school New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Like many young people grappling with trauma, Mackie says he began to act out. A core group of teachers helped get him out of trouble. Ray Vrazel, still an instructor at the school, personally drove the student to a Houston-based audition for the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he was accepted for his senior year of high school.

#anthony mackie! man you’re looking good! man oh man!