Fr. Mike and Mark Wahlberg on Father Stu | What "Picking Up Your Cross" Looks Like
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Today Fr. Mike had the chance to interview Mark Wahlberg about his amazing new movie, "Father Stu," which follows the incredible true story of Fr. Stuart Long, a "boxer-turned-priest who inspired countless people during his journey from self-destruction to redemption."
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Mark Wahlberg and this is Ascension Presents. |
| 0:03.4 | Okay, so this is relatively dark. |
| 0:10.1 | I don't know if this is I need to adjust this or not, but here's where we're at. |
| 0:14.3 | Okay, here we go. |
| 0:15.3 | We're going to do something a little bit different, differently, differently. |
| 0:18.5 | Today, not only is it Wednesday of Holy Week when this video is released, it is also the |
| 0:22.8 | same day that a new movie called Father's Stew is being released in theaters. |
| 0:27.0 | Starting Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson, I did an interview with him. |
| 0:29.8 | So in the midst of this Ascension Presents video, there's a little interview I got to sit |
| 0:33.8 | down and talk with Mark Wahlberg. |
| 0:35.0 | It's the story of a real-life story of a priest from Montana, his name was Stew, Father's |
| 0:40.1 | Stew. |
| 0:41.1 | The beginning of his story is not like the end of the story. |
| 0:44.7 | A couple of things. |
| 0:45.7 | One, the movie Father's Stew is rated R. It's rated R for a real reason because of the |
| 0:50.6 | anger and because of the language. |
| 0:52.2 | Full disclosure, there are F-bombs in almost every scene. |
| 0:54.3 | I'm not going to say every, every scene, but the story, the context of the story is Mark |
| 0:57.1 | Wahlberg is going to explain is this man's stew when he was growing up, I think when |
| 1:02.4 | he was six years old, his older brother had inexplicably died in a sleep. |
| 1:07.1 | And what they did was it took this family that was already kind of indifferent to God and |
| 1:11.1 | put them in this path of hatred towards God. |
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