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Casting Wahlberg

posted 8 years ago by vbel
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I heard that he was a last minute replacement but, for some reason, I couldn't find out who he replaced. I finally found out that it was Ryan Gosling, who felt that at age 29 he was too young to play the dad.

[–] smidget28 (805) 6 years ago

Wahlberg just didn't carry this off that well, but I still love the movie.

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7983) 6 years ago

I didn't think he did a bad job. Though at the time I hadn't seen him in anything but the Departed.

[–] Rocky15 (509) 5 years ago

Wahlberg was badly miscast, he’s fine in stuff like The Departed and Pain and Gain, but roles like this and he struggles...badly.

I think someone like Sam Rockwell or Josh Brolin would have been much better in Wahlbergs role.

[–] Lampedusean (498) 5 years ago

Nah, he was good. But it's hard to accept southies.

[–] Kokoro (40) 4 years ago

I think Mark did a wonderful job as the grieving father.

[–] Luffy (1236) 2 years ago

Sometimes people can't act because the role is too challenging. Other times it's because the role is too shitty to care about. This was such a thankless role.