![]() ![]() Wahlberg is the rare actor who’s at ease in both maximalist and minimalist modes. Wahlberg said he was able to stay within his “comfort zone,” which he described as “my commitment to playing it as real and as straight as possible.” ![]() Ferrell’s preferred method is nonstop improvisation Mr. Wahlberg’s character in “The Other Guys,” who has “an anger disorder but is also very vulnerable,” drew on the actor’s ability “to play wounded and betrayed in a really funny way.”Įven though “The Other Guys” required him to think on his feet Mr. McKay, the man behind the goofball absurdism of “Anchorman” and “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” said that Mr. Russell said, “but it’s a comedy that comes from being very real and intense.” Wahlberg’s, who introduced him to Adam McKay, the director of “The Other Guys.” “Mark has a great capacity for comedy,” Mr. 6), a buddy-cop action spoof in which he and Will Ferrell play New York Police Department underachievers. But first, he further develops his comic persona, recently on view in “Date Night,” in “The Other Guys” (Aug. Russell, who steered him toward two of his most affecting performances, in “Three Kings” and “I ♥ Huckabees,” is being readied for a year-end release. “The Fighter,” which reunites him with the director David O. Wahlberg has an eye on both the summer box office and the awards season. “I feel like I’ve snuck in the back door,” he said. Wahlberg would be the first to admit, he now has an acting and producing career that few could have foreseen back in the mid-’90s when the rapper, teen idol and underwear model known as Marky Mark decided to reinvent himself in Hollywood. “Look how fortunate I’ve been with my hard work.”Īs Mr. The previous day, he said, he had taken his family to brunch at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles, and while everyone else feasted on prime rib and pancakes, he sipped water.īut he’s not complaining. Wahlberg had to lose that extra weight quickly hence a stepped-up training regimen and a strict low-carb diet. When feedback from a rough-cut screening suggested a few more close-ups for the climactic fight, Mr. He gained nearly 30 pounds for a handful of scenes filmed in March that show a retired, out-of-shape Ward. The demands on his body have only intensified as the shoot has wound to a close. The general idea: “Let’s try not to kill each other, but definitely get in there and take some shots.” Wahlberg said it was important for him to show “the most realistic boxing ever in a film,” which meant sparring with real fighters. The morning we met, he had already completed a four-hour workout that started at 6:30 a.m. Wahlberg has been training for “The Fighter” for more than three years. “The Fighter,” of which he is also a producer, tells the life story of the Lowell, Mass., boxer “Irish” Micky Ward, one of his childhood heroes. Wahlberg now finally has a boxing movie almost in the can, and the bonus is that it’s an especially personal one. ![]() He had the lead role in a never-made biopic of the middleweight champion Vinnie Curto and was briefly attached to “The Black Dahlia,” the mystery noir whose hero is an ex-pugilist. Wahlberg, 38, has wanted to play a boxer. SMACK in the middle of Mark Wahlberg’s cavernous home gym here, amid the racks of weights and rows of cardio equipment, is the emblem of a career-long ambition: a regulation-size boxing ring.įor as long as he has been a movie star, Mr. ![]()
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