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Omar Benson Miller: "The one thing that's beautiful is walking around Detroit today."
Some consider Eminem's "8 Mile" film one of the best, if not thee best, rap movies ever made.
On Wednesday night at the Bel Air Luxury Cinema on 8 Mile in Detroit, people gathered, including some stars of the film, to see the film and commemorate its 15th anniversary.
Actors from the film who attended included Omar Benson Miller.
Gary Graff of The Oakland Press writes:
Omar Benson Miller recalled that Detroit was a very different place when he was here making the movie "8 Mile" back in 2001.
"That was a big change for a kid from L.A. to come out here and see how people were living in Detroit," Miller, now 39, who played Sol George in Eminem’s posse in the film, said Wednesday night. . . . "The one thing that's beautiful is walking around Detroit today. It's a whole new city. At the time (of the filming) it was like a bomb had just been let off.
"So to see where it is now . . . it's a full-circle moment. It's fantastic."
Miller, who’s currently seen on HBO’s "Ballers," was one of the celebrities to turn out for screening at the Bel Air Luxury Cinema on Eight Mile Road. He was joined by fellow cast members miz korona and radio personality Bushman. Eminem himself -- in the midst of rehearsals for a performance at the MTV European Music Awards on Sunday, Nov. 12, in London -- did not attend, but his longtime collaborator Denaun Porter was there, along with other rappers (T3 of Slum Village), Donte "Polo Frost" Grantham, MidWest Rico Lavelle), Cristen Metoyer of VH1’s "Basketball Wives" and a variety of football players, including former Detroit Lions center Dominic Raiola.
A fundraiser for the Community Music School’s Verses Project, a beneficiary of Eminem’s Marshall Mathers Foundation, "8 Mile" played in nine of the Bel Air’s 10 theaters and will continue to be shown each Wednesday in November.
