Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

My guest this week needs no introduction, so I'll keep it brief.

His name is Mark Wahlberg.

What I will tell you is that he stars in the new film, Father Stu.

It's the extraordinary true story of a kind of middling amateur boxer turned Catholic

priests turns his life around and does it while a degenerative neurological disease gets

worse and worse for him as his life goes on as this movie goes on.

Mark made this movie effectively by himself.

He paid for it anyway.

It stars Wahlberg, Mel Gibson and Jackie Weaver.

You've got three good names, three big names in Hollywood in this movie, but still because

as he says, and you'll hear him talk about this, there are no aliens, nothing's blown

up, no superheroes.

It's just a tough movie to get made.

So Mark bank rolled it with the help of a couple of people.

He was that important to him.

It was a movie that was pitched to him.

Actually, a story that was pitched to him by another priest.

He said, boy, you are here.

This guy's story, this Stu guy.

And so you'll hear Mark explain why it means so much to him.

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