He starts on the first of many beers, which he chugs through at an impressive pace. 'We've been going out on fishing trips, gutting fish and chopping heads off with hacksaws,' he says. They start filming next week, but he's already been getting into the role. His hair is longer than usual, and he has thick stubble - both for his next film, the real-life maritime disaster movie The Perfect Storm. He has been busy promoting his new movie, Three Kings, a semi-comic action romp in which he appears as one of a band of renegade soldiers after the Gulf War alongside George Clooney, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze. We meet in the bar of the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles. He was on to something.ĭo you think that if they hadn't called, you would have ended up as an actor? In the end the film itself, in which he played an army trainee in a remedial education course, wasn't much, but there was an attractively nervous verve to his performance which was captivating. You know, I'd always gotten over the judges and the lawyers and my mother, so I figured I could do it.' We had had some pretty funny conversations about my life and the trouble I was in, so I had to be honest with myself for once and realise that I'd been doing it my whole life anyway. 'Well, I just figured I'd been bullshitting my way through life and lying and I believed it, and that's pretty much what they told me acting was about. So, I ask, what on earth made you think you could do it? 'I just wanted to meet them,' he says, 'because I'd grown up watching them on TV and I was really big fans of both of them.' The three of them talked for about an hour, after which he went outside and tried to learn a couple of pages, came back in and auditioned. He was supposed to read the script beforehand, but he didn't bother. Then Penny Marshall and Danny DeVito, who had seen his Calvin Klein posters, said they wanted to see him for a movie they were putting together called Renaissance Man. In his pop heyday, he had been offered plenty of bad movies and he appeared briefly in one, a 1993 TV movie called The Substitute, for the cash: two days' work playing a student whose throat gets sliced by a bottle. By the end of 1993, Wahlberg was regarded as a washed-up pop-rap star and underwear model with a blemished reputation. Not just because he can be so good at it, but because in his best roles - Boogie Nights' Dirk Diggler, for instance - he can be good in the deep, disturbed, enchanting and subtle ways usually associated with actors who burn to act and yearn to lose themselves within their characters.īut, on the surface, what he says appears to be true. It's hard to believe, especially in the case of his acting career. At the age of 28, he has already found success in four different worlds - crime, pop music, modelling and acting - and, the way he usually tells it, he never really went looking for any of it. 'I just fell into the acting thing as kind of an accident,' he says. Mark Wahlberg says that he did not particularly mean for any of this to happen.
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