Anthony Mackie is lending a serving to hand in his hometown of New Orleans.
The actor returned to Louisiana as a part of a volunteer effort to assist restore roofs that also haven’t been fastened after final 12 months’s Hurricane Ida. Mackie teamed up with GAF, one of many largest U.S. roofing producers, for the mission.
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“It offers me a way of pleasure that I’m doing my individuals a service. I do know what individuals undergo on this neighborhood as a result of I used to be born on this neighborhood, I grew up on this neighborhood,” the award-winning actor mentioned throughout a current interview. “It’s necessary to me to carry again the presents and blessings I acquired outdoors the town.”
For Mackie, the service isn’t too removed from dwelling since he grew up working within the roofing enterprise earlier than reaching fame in Hollywood. The “Captain America” actor’s household owns Mackie One Development within the metropolis.
After the 2021 hurricane, New Orleans grew to become “a sea of blue tarps,” Mackie mentioned of the numerous homes which might be nonetheless tarped.
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“The hundred and fifty houses that GAF is doing within the seventh ward, that breaks lots of obstacles down for those that gained’t have the ability to afford to do this,” he mentioned, commending the corporate for using their sources in direction of the roofing mission.
He added that in whole, they’ve dedicated to doing “500 houses.”