Mark Wahlberg

Wahlberg plays David McCall, who falls in love with Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon). His tenderness turns to violence, as he stalks and terrorizes her and her friends and family. This psycho drama is directed by James Foley. Co-starring William Petersen, Alyssa Milano and Amy Brenneman.

I don’t know any serial killers or stalkers so I just tried to invent my own style of stalking. The whole idea was to try and make it as simple and basic as possible. I didn’t want to appear to be acting. The stereotypical bad guy is loud, obnoxious and crazy looking. My character is multi-dimensional, very nice in the beginning. You really couldn’t pinpoint what was going to happen or who was gonna do it. That’s what I liked about it. I didn’t want to exert myself too much, I just thought that he only did things because of what other people did, or mistakes that he made. It was all there on paper, it was just a matter of playing it out.

Wahlberg plays Danny Wallace, a detective who is secretly tasked by Internal Affairs to monitor Chen (Chow Yun-fat) for corruption. This action drama is directed by James Foley.

I can feel that he is a very active energy—full of energy boy, and he is very talented. You know he is a very famous rap singer and you can get rhythm from him. He’s very energized on the set. He gives you a lot of optimism. Spend time with him and you feel younger and younger everyday, says Chow.

Wahlberg plays Leo Handler, an ex-con who struggles to make a clean life for himself, but his job in a Queens, New York subway rail repair yard embroils him in corruption and murder. This action drama is directed by James Gray. Co-starring Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, Ellen Burstyn and James Caan.

Mark and I blocked it out of ourselves. We wanted it to be an epic battle, falling down the stairs and out on to the street. We had elbow pads and knee pads, but on the first take Mark just grabbed me with his pinkie, flipped me into the air and I landed on my head. Man, did I have a bump. I was black and blue for days. But I sure as hell wasn’t gonna do any f-cking John Wayne-style punching. I wanted it to be sloppy and barbaric and painful, like I’m hugging the life out of this guy who’s my friend while I’m pounding at him, said Gray while describing a cinematic fight with Wahlberg.

Wahlberg plays Charlie Croker, who seeks revenge for the murder of his mentor, John Bridger(Donald Sutherland) in this action drama, directed by F. Gary Gray. Co-starring Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Seth Green, Jason Statham, Mos Def.

I play kind of like the leader of this crew. I certainly treat them as equals. Everybody has their own field of expertise – and  the director F. Gary Gray did an amazing job of assembling the talent. Everybody had to be able to do their own thing; I think that’s what separates this movie from all the other movies.

Wahlberg plays Vince Papale, who becomes a member of the Philadelphia Eagles football team as a 30-year-old. He is the oldest rookie to make an NFL team who never played college ball. This sports drama is directed by Ericson Core. Co-starring Greg Kinnear and Elizabeth Banks.

It’s a big deal. The only other time I had experience that was in The Perfect Storm and obviously it was an extremely sensitive subject because of the tragic loss of all those guys. But with Vince, he was just so happy to get the movie made and I mean, I swear to god, it didn’t matter if Jackie Chan was playing me. He would have been happy. I swear to god, he was just so happy the movie was being made.

Wahlberg plays Bob Lee Swagger, who is a U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant. He is double-crossed and framed for a plot to kill the President and goes on the run to find the real killer and the reason he was set up. This action drama is directed by Antoine Fuqua. Co-starring Danny Glover, Ned Beatty, Michael Peña, Tate Donovan and Kate Mara.

Compared to Invincible, it was nothing. It was a walk in the park. But getting down to be as thin as I was for the movie, that was difficult. Then of course there was all the mental prep, learning everything that snipers need to know in the short amount of time that we had. It was a lot of running and jumping in this one.

Wahlberg plays Elliot Moore, a high school science teacher who investigates mass suicides taking place In New York City’s Central Park. This thriller drama is directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Co-starring Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo and Betty Buckley.

I play a science teacher, definitely a part that people will be extremely surprised that I decided to play. He’s constantly reminding me of how I need to walk. No, that looks too tough, that looks too angry. You’re a science teacher, you know. But I love it.

In this supernatural drama directed by Peter Jackson, Wahlberg plays Jack, the father of  a murdered 14-year-old girl. He begins to obsessively research his neighbors to try to find out who killed her. Co-starring Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli and Saoirse Ronan.

My biggest reason for wanting to be a part of this was Peter Jackson. I’m a huge fan of Peter’s. Because of the way I approach work, I wasn’t all that thrilled about the subject matter because I have a beautiful little girl and two beautiful boys. I don’t have the God-given talent that Rachel has to just snap into it and have these floods of emotion coming out and then turn it all off. So I basically had to live in that headspace for the entire time. I just thought it would be a beautiful movie and it was too good to pass up the opportunity to be a part of it.

Wahlberg plays Leo Davidson, an Air Force astronaut, who crashes on a planet called Ashlar in the year 5021. There he discovers that the world is ruled by humanoid apes, who can speak and treat human beings as slaves. The film is directed by Tim Burton and co-stars Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Paul Giamatti and Estella Warren.

Acting with people in gorilla suits is not exactly something that turned me on but I had to keep reminding myself the reason why I was there. There were days that I started to panic. The first day I freaked out. There was this kid with tribal markings on his face, a guy in a gorilla suit and Helena. It all seemed pretty ridiculous.