Starring Amandla Stenberg as a girl named Starr who witnesses the murder of her friend at the hands of a police officer, Anthony Mackie possibly plays an even bigger villain as somebody who rules the neighborhood with an iron fist.
Speaking of Kings, Anthony Mackie is the complete opposite of MLK as he plays a gang leader named King in the movie adaptation of Angie Thomas’s mega popular YA novel, The Hate U Give.
It really takes a lot to be a character who is even worse than a police officer who mistakenly kills a black teenager, but Mackie nails it.
This role is so tremendous because the film shows both sides of Starr’s world as she’s a black girl who goes to a white school in another part of town.