Rapper Coolio, who died this week at the age of 59, was not just a one-hit man, gangster paradise. The artist born under the name of Artis Leon Ivey Jr had also launched a successful acting career in the 1990s..
Appearing in some forty films, Coolio has had time to explore most of the iconic genres of cinema: horror, action, science fiction, comedy, superheroes and even eroticism… nothing has escaped the rapper’s radar. “The Quarry of Chaos”, summarized the Nanarland reference site in a tweet.
In 1997, Coolio landed the role of Jonathan Crane, also known as the Scarecrow, in batman and robin. She appears for a few seconds in a scene where she meets Robin (Chris O’Donnell) and Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone). Coolio should have once again endorsed the character in the sequel, of which he would have been the main antagonist. But this sequel never saw the light of day due to the failure of batman and robin.
In 2000, Coolio appeared on Goblin 5: The Curse. A fleeting appearance. “I am marked by the incomprehensible cameo of Coolio”, noted a few days before his death the videographer Fry3000, specialist in oranges. “He appears for 2 seconds, doesn’t seem to understand what he’s doing there, and we don’t see him again in the movie. For this specialist, this is the “best cameo” of him.
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Coolio had a strong taste for nanar, especially horror or post-apocalyptic. In 2001 he played in gangland 2010 barbarians of the apocalypse. “The question isn’t whether that rogue Ice-T will try to rape a corpse, but whether that spoiler Coolio will be able to talk him out of it,” he notes. Nanarland.
In 2005, Coolio was tempted by pterodactylshorror telefilm directed by Marc Lester (Command, with Schwarzenegger). “A pretty shockingly poor action movie,” laments the specialist site, still shaken by Coolio’s performance, “grimacing and firing machine guns at the dinosaurs in very bad CGI.”
Aside from reported movie appearances such as Convent, Reckless either Dracula 3000Coolio had also multiplied roles on television, especially in A babysitter from hell Y futurama. She had also signed the song from the credits of Kenan and Kelpopular sitcom of the late 1990s.
Source: BFM TV
