Paul, a gay co-worker whom Jimmy stood up for earlier in the film, agrees to cover for him. Jimmy initially doesn't want to go, but a visit from Alex changes his mind. However, a late night shift conflicts with the next battle tournament. Impressed with Jimmy's new-found responsibility, his factory supervisor gives him the extra shifts he had originally asked for. Enraged, "Wink" shows up with members of "Free World" to beat Jimmy up outside his home in the trailer park in front of Lily, with the mob badly beating him and leaving him with a black eye that's present at the final battle. Jimmy beats up "Wink" as Alex tries to break it up. When Jimmy shows up at the studio, however, he finds "Wink" having sex with Alex. The latter continually pesters Jimmy everyday with promises that he can help him "get big", that he knows people with influence and that "Wink" can hook Jimmy up with the support he needs. This begins with the deterioration of Jimmy's friendship with "Wink" (Eugene Byrd).
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The battle acts as kind of a "final conflict" with a rap group called "The Leaders of the Free World", who have harassed Jimmy throughout the film. He appears to decide that he will postpone his dream of a music career in favor of devoting more time to his day job and providing for his mother and sister.ī-Rabbit in the second rap battle at the Shleter in which he faces Lotto. He begins to question whether his group of friends, including "Future" (Mekhi Phifer), are holding themselves back from moving on to bigger things. Over time, though, Jimmy begins to take responsibility for the direction of his life and realizes that he has a large degree of control over how it will go. At first, he considers himself a victim of his circumstances and blames others for his problems. Jimmy comes to realize that his life has remained largely the same since he graduated from high school. Just prior to the events of the film, he ends a relationship with his pregnant girlfriend, Janeane ( Taryn Manning) and during the film, begins a new relationship with Alex ( Brittany Murphy), whom he meets at the factory that he works at when she arrives looking for her brother who also works there. Jimmy is focused on getting his rap career started, but he seems stalled he tries to compete in a rap battle, but chokes with stage fright and is booed off the stage. He has moved back north of 8 Mile to the rundown trailer home in Warren of his alcoholic mother, Stephanie (Kim Basinger), his sister Lily ( Chloe Greenfield) and Stephanie's abusive live-in boyfriend Greg Buehl ( Michael Shannon). ( Eminem) is a young and frustrated blue-collar factory worker. It was great.In 1995, Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. 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. I'm good friends with Jason Segel, so I called Jason. 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.
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