Skip Bolen/PeacockAnthony Mackie plays a post-apocalyptic delivery driver think of DoorDash, but much more dangerous in Peacock s series adaptation of the video game Twisted Metal, debuting Thursday, July 27.
Mackie s character drives a beat-up 1990s sports car that is deceptively deadly a far cry from his first set of wheels, "a 1985 Nissan Sentra," he told ABC Audio in an interview done before the SAG-AFTRA strike started.
"It was a disaster," he continues. "In New Orleans, we used to call them bird cars. So some mechanic would get a car from the junkyard, fix it up and sell it to you for like 600 bucks. So he sold me this Nissan Sentra. It had a back seat and a driver s seat. No passenger seat. It had a radio, no air conditioning. And the radio I put in myself with my cousin and it was like a house radio with speakers in a trunk."
And topping Mackie s playlist back then? "It would be A Tribe Called Quest, Midnight Marauder. I played th
Anthony Mackie plays a post-apocalyptic delivery driver think of DoorDash, but much more dangerous in Peacock's series adaptation of the video game Twiste
Skip Bolen/PeacockAnthony Mackie plays a post-apocalyptic delivery driver think of DoorDash, but much more dangerous in Peacock s series adaptation of the video game Twisted Metal, debuting Thursday, July 27.
Mackie s character drives a beat-up 1990s sports car that is deceptively deadly a far cry from his first set of wheels, "a 1985 Nissan Sentra," he told ABC Audio in an interview done before the SAG-AFTRA strike started.
"It was a disaster," he continues. "In New Orleans, we used to call them bird cars. So some mechanic would get a car from the junkyard, fix it up and sell it to you for like 600 bucks. So he sold me this Nissan Sentra. It had a back seat and a driver s seat. No passenger seat. It had a radio, no air conditioning. And the radio I put in myself with my cousin and it was like a house radio with speakers in a trunk."
And topping Mackie s playlist back then? "It would be A Tribe Called Quest, Midnight Marauder. I played th
Skip Bolen/PeacockAnthony Mackie plays a post-apocalyptic delivery driver think of DoorDash, but much more dangerous in Peacock s series adaptation of the video game Twisted Metal, debuting Thursday, July 27.
Mackie s character drives a beat-up 1990s sports car that is deceptively deadly a far cry from his first set of wheels, "a 1985 Nissan Sentra," he told ABC Audio in an interview done before the SAG-AFTRA strike started.
"It was a disaster," he continues. "In New Orleans, we used to call them bird cars. So some mechanic would get a car from the junkyard, fix it up and sell it to you for like 600 bucks. So he sold me this Nissan Sentra. It had a back seat and a driver s seat. No passenger seat. It had a radio, no air conditioning. And the radio I put in myself with my cousin and it was like a house radio with speakers in a trunk."
And topping Mackie s playlist back then? "It would be A Tribe Called Quest, Midnight Marauder. I played th
With 2023 having already produced one great post-apocalyptic series based on a video game (a.k.a. “The Last of Us”), a second was probably too much to ask. “Twisted Metal” – a Peacock series spun out of the PlayStation game – manages to start with a rush of zany energy courtesy of the writers behind “Deadpool,” before hitting potholes as it becomes too over-the-top to justify the ride.