TeaPartyRon Loc: Tennessee

Thank You Mark Wahlberg.

His comment mostly was directed at Tom Cruise for his remark the other day that he works harder making movies than those Marines In Afghanistan.

Mark Wahlberg. Let him give certain unnamed actors a piece of his mind:

“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. 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.”

“I don’t give a sh-t if you get your ass busted. You get to go home at the end of the day. You get to go to your hotel room. You get to order your f-cking chicken. Wh**ever the f-ck it is. People talk about what do we do to bond the way that those guys bonded. We just knew what they did. It didn’t matter. I didn’t have to say a word to Emile [Hirsch] or a word to Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster…who’s my brother even though he’s the kind of actor who wants to continuously debate the debate and everything else…and I love him for it. I gave him half my salary…wh**ever I gave him…to do it because I knew how great he was and for us to be on that mountain together and in the end I could just look at him and it would break my heart knowing that that’s my brother and I may never see him again. But it just seems like so much more than that.”

Yes, Mark Wahlberg went on in full-bore expletive-laden ballistics mode:

“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. 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,” he said. “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 concluded with an apology for “losing my sh-t” and told reporters to not ask him any more questions that night.

All in all, Wahlberg makes a good point that probably took a lot of guts to say. Because unlike soldiers, the rest of us – even celebrities – do get to sleep in a warm bed at the end of the day. We get to hold our loved ones. We get to enjoy the comforts of home. We don’t have to fear for our lives or wonder if we’re going to make it through the next week.

As is implied in even his lawyer’s “correction” to the Tom Cruise story, it is fair to say that the actor did make some comparison of time away from his child shooting films to fighting in a war. It’s an injustice to make such comparisons to the sacrifices of our servicemen and servicewomen, under any circumstances. Kudos to Wahlberg for his honest message. I really hope Tom Cruise hears it.

JimMe

It's good to hear actors, like Mr Wahlberg, be candidly honest about acting and Actually Serving Our Country With Your Life On The Line 24/7...

TeaPartyRon Loc: Tennessee

Yes I Agree.

Weyner

A very good post Mark Wahlberg,good to see someone tell it like it is,I like people who are not afraid to speak up.

Ghost Loc: The 1st state to ever secede

Good to see Mark Wahlberg sticking up for our brave men and women in the armed forces.

Glad to see some sanity retained in the chaotic wastes of Hollywood.