Mark Wahlberg

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 4 November 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Over the past two decades, Mark Wahlberg has worked his way onto Hollywood’s A-list with memorable performances in movies like “The Departed,” “The Fighter,” and a string of hit comedies, often with his friend Will Ferrell. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist meets up with the actor in Boston to talk about his childhood there and the overnight hip-hop career that made him a star, as well as his latest film “Instant Family.”

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.
0:05.8	Thanks so much for clicking again this weekend listening along with us.
0:08.9	Got another good one for you.
0:10.3	I got to say Mark Walbert and we're going through all of it.
0:13.8	I went up to Boston where he's shooting a Netflix movie right now.
0:17.2	We met up in Southie.
0:18.7	Where else would you meet up with Mark Walbert, but in Southie got together and talked about
0:23.3	all of it.
0:24.3	His beginnings in Southie, his obviously rough childhood.
0:26.8	He'll hear all the trouble he got into, very serious trouble as a teenager spent time in
0:31.3	jail.
0:33.0	And then how he spun out of that.
0:34.4	Like how did you get from coming out of jail to being the street kid to having a music
0:39.1	career?
0:40.1	How do you get to Marky Mark?
0:41.1	How do you get to Calvin Klein and the underwear models?
0:43.6	And then how do you get on to movies?
0:45.2	How do you get into Dirk Diggler and Boogie Knights and then all the way into these Will
0:49.3	Farrell Commies all the way up and through to where he is now, which is the highest earning
0:54.8	actor in Hollywood right now.
0:56.6	Number one on the Forbes list.
0:58.2	It's a great conversation.
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