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12.04.2022 - 01:41 / etcanada.com
Mark Wahlberg is opening up about filming his latest project “Father Stu” while his mother, Alma, passed away.
“It was one of those things where she was not well, and I knew that you know, her time was limited,” Wahlberg told Global‘s “The Talk” in a preview of Friday’s episode.
Wahlberg went “back and forth” to visit his mom but was on set in April 2021 when he learned Alma had died at 78 following a battle with dementia.
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“I’ve always kind of used all my real-life experience, the good stuff, the bad stuff, to draw on, and trying to play the roles in the most authentic and believable ways. But with that particular scene, there’s a moment in the church and I’m kind of asking why, and that was right after I found out, so ya, I kind of always go there anyway,” he explained.
The actor told the show how he wants to focus on “celebrating and remembering all the good times” with his mom and not focus on the “suffering” she went through.
Comparing his mom’s “grace” to that of the real life Father Stu (a boxer turned priest), he continued: “She dealt with it with such grace and dignity and it really kind of helped us to deal with it happening.”
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Co-host Amanda Kloots asked Wahlberg, a devote Catholic, if taking the role had an impact on his faith.
“It did, but then also, with everything that was going on and what I as dealing with and when I got sick and had some health issues and stuff…I kind of, for the first time dealt with a different kind of depression and a different kind of sadness, but it’s those things also that kind of make you stronger,” he said.
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Easter, Mark Wahlberg is offering us a gift as sweet as a box of Peeps or a chocolate rabbit — and just as nutritious.“Father Stu” is a loving biopic of a one-time real-life hell-raising, blue-collar hustler who somehow becomes a white-collared Roman Catholic priest. So why is it ultimately as hollow as that chocolate bunny?You can instantly see why Wahlberg — the star, executive producer and financier — was attracted.
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Drinking olive oil packs a major punch. Mark Wahlberg admitted that gaining 30 pounds for his new film, "Father Stu," took a toll on him.The actor stars as Stuart Long, an amateur boxer-turned-priest who suffers from a degenerative and incurable muscular disorder. The story is based on the real-life Father Stuart Long, who leaned on faith during tough times.
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Mark Wahlberg says gaining weight "took a toll" on him. The Hollywood actor had to pile on the pounds for his role in 'Father Stu' and he admits having to gain 30 pounds was very difficult for him, and he ate 11,000 calories a day to ensure he could put the weight on. He said: "I put on 30 pounds and went from being a guy who was in fighting shape to a guy who was wheelchair-bound, suffering from a rare muscular degenerative disease.
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