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8 MILE 🎤 (2002) CAST: THEN AND NOW ⭐️ (20 YEARS LATER)
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Multiple cameos including:
- Brandon T. Jackson.
- Proof.
- Obie Trice.
- Njeri Earth.
- Xzibit.
While 8 Mile is not strictly autobiographical, the film draws so much from his life (Eminem did indeed grow up near 8 Mile Road and participated in rap battles at a venue called the Shelter) that it's impossible to separate him from Jimmy Smith Jr., a rare moment of perfect synchronicity between an actor and their ...
An interesting behind-the-scenes detail from 8 Mile is that the character of Future was actually based on the late rapper Proof, who was Eminem's real-life best friend.
While some names change for the screen or represent people, family, and friends who appeared in the rapper's life (like Lily, Alex, Janeane, and Stephanie to name a few), other figures go by the same name in the film as they do in real life, like fellow rapper Future.
The same year that Eminem Show dropped, 8 Mile brought all that baggage to the screen. In the Curtis Hanson–directed, quasi-biographical drama, Eminem plays Jimmy “B-Rabbit” Smith Jr., a down-on-his luck but hungry rapper in Detroit.
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