Eminem has a cameo appearance in Adam Sandler’s Funny People and we have our first look at his meeting with Sandler’s character.
Now this is the appropriate use of a non-actor in a film. I am not opposed to having these “non actors” be in movies, I just don’t think they should be burdened with carrying the whole film. Eminem’s role in 8 Mile being a small exception as he essentially was playing a role modeled after .. well Eminem. He just had to be himself and he did a great job at it.
I do like the revelation that Film School Rejects shares about Apatow on directing Eminem:
“I was scared to pitch jokes to him then I realized his songs are as nasty as anything that has ever been spoken. There is no way to offend him.”
After seeing his staged gag with Bruno, I would assume that Eminem has a great sense of humour and thick skin about these things. You would have to in a genre of music that revolves around boasting about what you have, and battling against people verbally telling them what they don’t have.
I can’t wait to see Eminem and Sandler play off each other.
