Actor Mark Walhberg Aims To More Meaningful Content Like ‘Father Stu’ “I Feel Like This Is Starting A New Chapter For Me”
deadline.comstar Mark Wahlberg wants to be a part of more uplifting content.While speaking with Entertainment Tonight, he spoke about his journey filming and how the inspirational message behind the film, is opening up a new door in his career and transitioning out of the Hollywood spotlight. “I feel like this is starting a new chapter for me in that, now, doing things like this [with] real substance can help people.
I definitely want to focus on making more. I wouldn’t say necessarily just faith-based content but things that will help people.
Hopefully this movie will open a door for not only myself but for lots of other people in Hollywood to make more meaningful content.”Maybe Wahlberg is looking to make films that are seen as inspirational (like Father Stu), opposed to his more violent action cinema like Infinite, and Mile 22, or escapist films like Uncharted.
Father Stu follows Stuart Long (Wahlberg), while scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen (Teresa Ruiz), a Catholic Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm.
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