He ended up getting the job and went on to an acting career that has included starring roles in blockbuster movies as well an Oscar nom for The Departed.
Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day. November 22, pm. Related Stories. Surgeon General Response. All Rights reserved. First time, it was me and David, Christian and a couple other people, at Paramount. I realized how difficult it must be to see your life up there on the big screen, condensed to under two hours and I said, come see it with an audience.
We did that in New Jersey and that was an experience. This movie is so down and dirty and real, but it has a lot of humor and emotion, and an amazing payoff at the end. Micky got it the first time he saw it.
For Dicky, it was harder to swallow. The fact is, he blew it. By comparison, Micky is subtle and understated. Wahlberg: No. There was always one role for me to play, and that was the champ. And look, who else was going to play that part and be as believable as a guy who could win the welterweight title?
I love so many boxing films. What I wanted to do was to create the most realistic boxing in the movie and look like I could win that title.
DH: Which fight performances inspired you? Wahlberg: There are so many. Raging Bull is so different than Rocky. Daniel Day-Lewis was very good in a lot of ways in The Boxer. Body and Soul. Robert Ryan, Kirk Douglas. We wanted to make one that was our own, but there was a little bit of the dark side of Raging Bull , and some Rocky.
You see Micky Ward in any of his great fights, and they play like Rocky because of his style of fighting. She looked good in there, starting out with no knowledge about a boxing ring. She was fearless and was willing to get out there and go for it. Towards the end, she started looking pretty damn good. DH: Micky worshipped Dicky and a major conflict in the story was the difficulty he had in placing his own career above family loyalty.
What parts of that character appealed to you most? Then you get in the ring with him. The guy who tells the story through his eyes is a much more difficult part to play, harder than the part that has the flash, and is big and in your face. That was Micky. I knew it meant everything to him, and to Dicky, to have their story told. This movie had to get made. So I had to figure out.
At Paramount, they had a certain idea of how they wanted the movie to be made, the filmmaker, the costar and the budget. I went to the studio and said, I think I can figure out a way to get this movie done. Can you let me take for a little while, and then bring it back to you? They entrusted me with that. I thought I had figured out a way to make the best possible version of this movie and I was able to go and get that done. DH: When your picture is on the ropes, almost knocked out, how symbolically important was it for you to keep training?
Would it have been conceding defeat? Wahlberg: Yes, for sure. That training process was as expensive as it was time consuming. I was dragging these guys around with me, everywhere we went, putting them up in apartments when I was in different cities, on different locations, making films and promoting films.
There were times we were so desperate to make the movie that we almost made the wrong version of the movie. For whatever reason, we were protected. I was able to get David O Russell. It would still be very real, but it would have more heart, humor and emotion. DH: Thanks to the internet, we all know how intense Russell can be, as well as Christian Bale, and he lost 30 pounds to play Dicky. How was the intensity level compared to a movie like Three Kings , and how does that intensity affect your performance?
Wahlberg: People expected all kinds of fireworks, but you know what? Christian felt like David had a really good take on the film and on his part, and we all felt that less was more when it came to the drugs and the addiction thing. Everybody was excited about making this, we all felt we were onto something special. I tried to set the tone early on and the vibe was good all the way through. Working cats looking for new places to get down to business. Classical Music.
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For more than a month, the duo trained with the actor, waking up as early as 4 a. But the actor and boxer shared similar backgrounds they were from nearby neighborhoods and both came from large families and Wahlberg wanted to play Micky from the get-go. Plus, all that training needed to be put to good use. Luckily, Wahlberg had a Dicky in mind.
The actor-producer had met Bale through a school their daughters both attended.
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