Actor and producer (and former Marky Mark singer) Mark Wahlberg shared a whole lot of opinions at the premiere of his film Lone Survivor. For starters, he spoke about how his family reality show on A&E, Wahlburgers. While the series will revolve around growing a family restaurant, Wahlberg was quick to share that it won't be anything like Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the Associated Press reports. In an interview Tuesday, Wahlberg spoke directly to the Kardashian comparison: "No, no. It's very different. It's very different. Nothing against them. They've been hugely successful," Wahlberg said. "It's just about building a family business. Uh, it's just very different, very different."
Wahlberg didn't say anything offensive to warrant a rebuttal from the Kardashian clan (it doesn't seem), but his opinions about Hollywood didn't stop there.
Entertainment Weekly reports that Wahlberg went on a long tirade at the war film Q&A. When asked about the tough training he had to undergo for a military role, Wahlberg said "For actors to sit there and talk about 'oh I went to SEAL training'? I don't give a f-ck what you did. You don't do what these guys did." He continued: "For somebody to sit there and say my job was as difficult as being in the military? How f-cking dare you, while you sit in a makeup chair for two hours."
Wahlberg went on to talk about his former roles, retired SEAL Marcus Luttrel, and Lone Survivor director Peter Berg. "I've done the movies where I talk about God. I trained for four and a half years and I was 'The Fighter' and f-ck all that. It really means nothing."
He then shifted to the current film. "I love Marcus [Luttrell] for what he's done and I'm a very lucky guy to do what I do and I'm proud to have been part of it, but it's just so much bigger than what I do. I love Pete [Berg] for what he did and how committed he was," Wahlberg said.
He elaborated on Berg's commitment to making the film as real as possible. "He would never let any one of us forget about what was important in the course of making the movie and whether it was Marcus or the other SEAL guys, if they saw something that didn't ring true, I don't care if it was going to be the biggest stunt sequence in the movie, they would cut, call bullsh-t, and grab all of us by the f-cking neck and say 'no do it this way, and do it right and make it real' and if you don't it's a problem. I was really proud to be a part of that."
Wahlberg saved the speech from becoming negative, but still added at the end, "I'm sorry for losing my sh-t. Don't ask any more questions tonight."
This leads us back to the question, will his reality show really not be a ticking time bomb for drama among his mother and two brothers Paul and Donnie? Donnie will help produce the show along with Stephen Levinson, who has produced Boardwalk Empire and Entourage -- the series being based on some of the Wahlberg family and friends. Wahlberg was executive producer on Entourage and there's already been a fair share of heated buzz over the development of the Entourage movie.
We'll have to wait until January 22nd to see just how different this family reality TV shows are from the rest, but if the Wahlberg family is anything like any other family, and if Wahlberg is as vocal as he's been in the past, some drama is to be expected.
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