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"  Anthony Mackie is quickly turning into the guy who&amp;#039;s doing everything. After his debut screen appearance in 8 Mile, he went on to Million Dollar Baby, Half Nelson, and The Hurt Locker. Now he&amp;#039;s starring in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (out this week) and the upcoming Gangster Squad. It&amp;#039;s more impressive given that he bartends just about every night at the bar he opened last year in Brooklyn: NoBar. We headed down there on a recent afternoon and talked to the actor about starting business in a new industry, cruel women, gangsters, and Macaulay Culkin. And shared a drink, of course. I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are. The best one I heard was this dude who walked in and said, &amp;quot;I need a drink.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;All right, what&amp;#039;s going on?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I just got home and there&amp;#039;s an eviction notice on my door.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s crazy. You didn&amp;#039;t pay your rent?&amp;quot; And he said, &amp;quot;No, my rent was paid. My building was condemned. Because it&amp;#039;s deemed unlivable.&amp;quot; This isn&amp;#039;t no Bill Cosby brownstone. I was like, &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s no place to have beer, watch a football game, and just meet people and talk shit.&amp;quot; The worst part of owning a business is your friends. Because they&amp;#039;ll come in, and they only drink top-shelf. It&amp;#039;s never &amp;quot;Oh, give me the little cheap vodka.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s &amp;quot; I want the purified, XO vodka from the top, double-distilled...&amp;quot; When you give &amp;#039;em a tab, it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Why would you... Talking about you&amp;#039;re going to give me a tab!&amp;quot; David&amp;#039;s Brisket House. If you like brisket, it&amp;#039;s the best in New York. I would say every man should know how to make a really good pi\u00F1a colada. Because every girl likes a pi\u00F1a colada. Right? My girlfriend&amp;#039;s drink, funny enough, is Crown and Coke. We grew up together in New Orleans. Women are just... awful. Awful, awful, awful creatures. Because most of the time, when you&amp;#039;re on a first date, it&amp;#039;s because a dude asked you on a date. Most of the time, the pressure is on the dude to make you feel comfortable, to make you laugh, to take you to a place that you would like. It&amp;#039;s a lot of pressure on the dude. And if you didn&amp;#039;t have a good time on your first date, then you&amp;#039;re not saying that you didn&amp;#039;t like the restaurant or that you didn&amp;#039;t like the cab ride or you didn&amp;#039;t like the movie. You&amp;#039;re saying, I don&amp;#039;t like you. At Juilliard, I couldn&amp;#039;t afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home. Once I got out of school and did 8 Mile, it was a completely different world. It was hardcore. So I feel like a drink or two really gets you to who you are. That&amp;#039;s why, when you go to the Independent Spirit Awards, at the beginning of the carpet, they&amp;#039;re handing out Jameson. They&amp;#039;re like, &amp;quot;Here. Drink. Go down the carpet.&amp;quot; Now, the publicists might hate it. The managers definitely hate it. But the actors are like, &amp;quot;Yes!&amp;quot;  Matt Damon was asked, &amp;quot;Brad Pitt&amp;#039;s not allowed to walk down the street, and he can&amp;#039;t drive his kids to school \u2014 how are you able to drive your kids to school and be the guy that you are?&amp;quot; And he said, &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s because I choose to be.&amp;quot; If people come to my trailer, I usually have a stash. I would love to be a superhero. A little Spider-Man. I would love to be a love interest. I would like to do a Notebook. With Nia Long. I like to watch old-school movies that they don&amp;#039;t make anymore. Like... You&amp;#039;re going to laugh at me: Fried Green Tomatoes. I have a VHS-and-DVD player. The great thing about Vampire Hunter is: It&amp;#039;s steeped in truth. All this stuff about Abraham Lincoln \u2014 the timeline \u2014 is real. He gives the Gettysburg Address, he signs the Emancipation Proclamation, his sons die. William H. Johnson, whom I play, was a real person. He was Abraham Lincoln&amp;#039;s chauffer and caddy in 1853. When they went to Gettysburg, William H. Johnson was with him. On the way back, Johnson contracted smallpox and died. Abraham Lincoln, with money out of his own pocket, paid for him to buried at Arlington Cemetery. He&amp;#039;s still there today. And on his headstone Lincoln put, &amp;quot;William H. Johnson: Citizen.&amp;quot; He didn&amp;#039;t put &amp;quot;slave.&amp;quot; He didn&amp;#039;t put &amp;quot;property.&amp;quot; He didn&amp;#039;t put &amp;quot;guy I knew.&amp;quot; He put &amp;quot;citizen.&amp;quot; Gangster Squad. There&amp;#039;s nothing better than standing in the middle of Wilshire Boulevard at 2 a.m. shooting a Tommy gun. There&amp;#039;s this one scene in Home Alone where Macaulay Culkin is home, and he&amp;#039;s watching this old black-and-white movie, and the dude looks like Al Capone or Bugsy Calhoun, and he says, &amp;quot;Ah, Sunny, I believe ya&amp;#039;. But my Tommy gun don&amp;#039;t!&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;ve always wanted to say that line in a movie. That&amp;#039;s my dream. I don&amp;#039;t know if it&amp;#039;ll make the movie, but I definitely stuck it in there. Me and Ryan Gosling. And Josh Brolin, badass by trade, actor by law. If the ocean were whiskey and I were a duck, I&amp;#039;d swim to the bottom and never come up. 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