Mark Wahlberg may be one of the biggest names on the big screen, but the Spenser: Confidential The star, 48, says he doesn’t have much to do with Hollywood.
“I’m so disconnected from Hollywood,” the actor told guardian in a new and revealing interview. “In addition to working, I go to the supermarket. I don’t go to on-site dinners or screenings. I live in Beverly Hills, but it might as well be the English countryside, because I see no one and do nothing. I don’t go to awards shows unless I have a movie in them. “I go to bed early, I get up early, I take my kids to school and I’m with my wife if I’m not working.”
It’s a far cry from Wahlberg’s tumultuous upbringing in Boston, where the youngest of nine children had to navigate a challenging life both at home and away.
“When I walked out my door, the only thing that was there was violence,” Wahlberg said, adding that “I was always in trouble and I was kind of small. In the circumstances where I was attacked, I sometimes had to protect and defend myself. It’s not easy dealing with grown men as a teenager who is 5’2 and weighs 120 pounds.”
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Wahlberg acknowledges that he made some tragic mistakes during his youth. He found himself incarcerated after attacking a man while he was high on drugs in 1988, serving 45 days of a two-year sentence after pleading guilty to felony assault.
“I made a lot of terrible mistakes and I paid dearly for those mistakes,” said Wahlberg, who decided to reform his life and “do the work.”
“I took it upon myself to recognize my mistakes and go against the grain and no longer be part of the gang, to say that I was going to go and do my thing,” he said. “Which made it 10 times harder to walk from my house to the train station, go to school or go to work.”
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Determined to “do the right thing,” Wahlberg took advantage of his second chance at life. He now channels his own experiences into his work.
“I think the only thing I have going for me is that I have all this real-life experience that I can apply to my job,” he added. “I think the audience can definitely feel the authenticity. But that came at a real price.”
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Despite his teenage wiles, Mark says his four children aren’t all that interested in hearing about their father’s past. They “make fun of it, like, ‘Oh God, here we go, Dad and the street stories about him, whatever, Dad.’ “They’re not impressed,” Wahlberg said. “Well, they don’t act impressed, that’s for sure.”
The interview also saw the former underwear model reflecting on his early ’90s Calvin Klein campaigns with supermodel Kate Moss, who has since expressed discomfort with the revealing photo shoots and accused Wahlberg of making unwanted comments. on his body.
“I think I was probably a little rough. “It’s like doing my thing,” he told the Guardian, and added with a laugh that “it wasn’t very… mundane, let’s say that.
“But I saw her and greeted her. I think we saw each other at a concert here and there, greeted each other and exchanged jokes.”
