Playboy Interview: Bernie Mac

December, 2004

Some celebrities show up for interviews with an entourage. Bernie Mac shows up with medical equipment. After a hospital stay and three weeks flat on his back fighting a case of pneumonia, the comedian turned actor is having trouble breathing and is tethered by a tube to a nearby oxygen tank. A lesser man might have taken the day off. Not Mac. Although being linked to the tank hinders his body language and his energy level is low, Mac perseveres. When you've been through what he has, a bout of pn...

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