Anthony Mackie once got puked on by a fan taking a picture: 'She was so gone'

Anthony Mackie takes the cake for grossest fan encounter.

The Twisted Metal and Captain America 4 star recounted the story about how a fan once puked on him while seeking a photo to the (understandably horrified) group of actors gathered for The Hollywood Reporter’s Comedy Actor Emmy Roundtable, including Ricky Martin, John Goodman, Kelsey Grammer, Theo James, and Bowen Yang.

"I was in Vancouver, shooting Altered Carbon, and I see this young lady across the bar. The way she was acting, I thought she was special needs," he told the group. "So I tell the bartender, 'Yo, tell her to come over and say hello.' She makes her way around the bar and everybody in the restaurant’s like, 'He’s so nice.'"

Mackie explained that the woman asked to take a picture with him, and he agreed as long as it was "discreet." "So I take the picture, she looks at it and she pukes from here all the way down to my shoes. This is after two dozen oysters, [and] a lobster," he explained.

Mackie then told his fellow actors the woman ran out of the restaurant, and luckily for him, a waiter swooped in to save the day. "[He] takes me back to the oyster wash-off, hoses me down on the [shucking table]. They take my clothes. He goes across the street to T.J. Maxx and gets me some sweatpants and a graffiti T-shirt, and I come back out and this woman is like, 'I’m sorry, can I take a picture?'"

At this point, Mackie had to clarify that it was a different woman who asked for this photo, and not the one who puked on him, but her comedic timing was perfect, nonetheless.

"But the original [woman], she was just completely f---ed?" James asked Mackie.

"She was so gone. So I asked the [other] woman, 'Yo, I was just trying to be nice to your special needs friend.' She was like, 'Special needs? That’s my boss,'" Mackie said.

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Mackie will have many more opportunities for (hopefully barf-free) fan encounters soon. In addition to making the FYC promotional rounds for Twisted Metal, the star is also gearing up for Marvel Cinematic Universe entry Captain America: Brave New World.

He recently teased the highly anticipated project to EW, "The title implies that there's a new, bigger enemy now; there's a new frontier that we have to conquer. From Captain America: The First Avenger to Endgame, the enemy was always good versus bad. Now that we've conquered that, where do we go from here? When the bad guys reappear, in what form are they reappearing? It is a new storyline with new characters, with new beliefs, and it creates a new idea of this new world that we're going into."

Brave New World hits theaters in 2025.