I mean, yes, one day maybe, but at this very moment it just kind of happened, and I couldn’t have been more excited when it did.’īridges on balancing his music and film: ‘I focus on one at a time, but luckily, when you shoot movies, it takes them almost a year to turn them around.
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It’s not like I made a conscious decision, ‘Oh, the next film I do is going to be an action movie starring Ludacris and Mark Wahlberg.’ It doesn’t quite work that way. There’s actually no reason why I shouldn’t have done it. Kunis on transitioning from comedy to action: ‘It’s one of those things where you get the opportunity to do a movie like this, you jump at the chance. So just trying to not only surprise myself, but surprise everyone else and continue to choose these diverse roles that let you know I obviously must be acting, because it’s nothing like what the persona of Ludacris is.’ When I’m acting, I don’t want anyone to think I am Ludacris, and that is the exact reason why I do that. Ludacris is a character all within itself. So look for me playing a tax attorney sometime soon!’īridges on separating himself from his rapper persona: ‘That is the exact reason why I choose roles like that – to get away from the persona Ludacris. That’s why when I get offered to play, like, a science teacher or an astronaut, even though I’m not well suited for those roles, I jump at the opportunity. They’re the only movies that they’re offering me – either a crook or a cop. Wahlberg on what attracts him to cop/crook roles: ‘Well, they’re the only offers that I get. It was funnier than that movie he did, ‘Hot Shots.’ No, but tell that guy I said, ‘Say hi to you mother for me.’ I was a big fan during the Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscopo days … although I liked Will Ferrell on that show. I haven’t really watched ‘Saturday Night Live’ for a while. Wahlberg on the SNL skit making fun of him by Andy Samberg: ‘Well, it certainly wasn’t as funny as Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin. I’d love them to watch the movie before they play the game.’ Advertisement Wahlberg on the gamer-appeal of Max Payne: ‘Well, first and foremost, we wanted to satisfy the die-hard game fans, and hopefully it will draw a lot of other people to the film based on the images that they see in the spots, and you know, maybe they’ll go and watch and play the game after. But I’m really drawn to the kind of movies which I see, which are, you know, guy’s guys. I’m a ‘grass is always greener on the other side’ kind of guy, so right now I’m looking for like a broad comedy or a romantic comedy, something along those lines. Wahlberg on picking genres: ‘I like doing the exact opposite of what I did the last time around. I had to stay in that space for the course of the 12 weeks of production. But psychologically, I would say I just had to put myself in that headspace of imagining that something horrific happened to my family, which is not a fun place to go, you know. And I’ve done a lot of weapons training in the past on other films, so I’m very familiar with weapons. Wahlberg on becoming Max Payne: ‘Well, physically I didn’t have to do all that much I’ve been training to do a boxing movie for two years now, so I kinda came in in-shape. And I read the script before I realized it was based on a video game, and I just thought it was a nice fit for me.’ Night (Shyamalan)’s movie ‘The Happening,’ I definitely wanted to do something where I could really go off. After doing ‘The Lovely Bones’ and doing M.
Wahlberg on choosing the role of Max Payne: ‘I’d been looking to do something with some action, some energy, some intensity. The cast discussed choosing roles, becoming enforcers of justice and their feelings about the film.
The movie follows the story of a cop turned rogue vigilante seeking justice for his slain family. The Daily Orange participated in a conference call with the cast of ‘Max Payne,’ a video game turned action movie to be released Oct.