#Eminem 8mile soundtrack movie#
#Eminem 8mile soundtrack plus#

Eventually we were just like, 'we should go.' We are not going to get this role. And then Jason got up, and the exact same thing: 'yo what's up? It's me, Cheddar Bob.' And we just-I actually think we didn't finish. Like, auditioning is so embarrassing, but having your friend there in front of you-and we were both in that moment just like, what were we thinking? Why did we do this? We barely got through it on my side.

We were just like, this was such a bad idea. As soon as I was like, 'yo what's up it's me, Cheddar Bob,' we both just started laughing hysterically. And as soon as we were, like, in the room and started-I went first. And it seemed like-we both were like, I think we actually are doing pretty good at this. We prepared the scenes, and as we were preparing it alone, it was-we were actually doing very well. And I was going to call you and ask if you could read the Eminem role for me.' And I was like, 'well, that's perfect.' So we actually had a sleepover at my house that night. And I was like, 'can you read this with me?' And he was like, 'oh, that's funny because I also have an audition for Cheddar Bob.

#Eminem 8mile soundtrack plus#

It's a soundtrack and plays like a soundtrack, with many cuts from current stars and new artists (several associated with Eminem 's fledgling Shady imprint), plus a couple of previously released tracks, most of it very high quality, whether it's a hard-hitting Jay-Z, a sultry Macy Gray, or Taryn Manning's Boomkat's sexy slow burn 'Wasting My Time.

#Eminem 8mile soundtrack movie#

I'm good friends with Jason Segel, so I called Jason. This may be the soundtrack for Eminem 's movie debut, but don't think of 8 Mile of as an Eminem album, because it's not. And so what the actors were told to do is-it was incumbent on them to-it was their responsibility to bring in a person to read with the other side of the scene. And I think she just didn't-felt uncomfortable reading Eminem's lines, basically. You know, this casting director didn't want to hire someone to do it with her and did not want to do it herself because Eminem was the other person in the scene. And often, when you go in to audition for a film, there's someone who reads with you. During a May 2021 interview with Terry Gross on the National Public Radio program 'Fresh Air,' Seth Rogen remembered that both he and his friend Jason Segel auditioned for the role of 'Cheddar Bob,' even though they were fairly sure that neither of them was right for the role: 'So we were auditioning for a character in 8 Mile-I believe his name is Cheddar Bob-who is, like, a friend of Eminem's character, who's Rabbit.