LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – After more than four years working tirelessly to make his film, “The Fighter,” and more than four years of training in the boxing ring to fit the role, Mark Wahlberg has changed the routine of life.
“My new regimen consisting of a bottle of red wine and plenty of food,” actor jokes, “and I’m enjoying myself, but my wife was like, ‘you start to look really bad.’”
It was a rare event when, as an adult, Mark Wahlberg has looked bad. And as “The Fighter” debuted on Friday in the major cities in the United States, is looking very good with Oscar buzz and reviews of solid work in the corners.
A troubled teen who lands in jail, Wahlberg turned his life as a performer, first as rapper Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch with, then as a Calvin Klein model when the stomach as hard as stone becomes jealous of men and women.
He breaks through the ranks of Hollywood actresses in the 1990s in films like “Boogie Nights,” a box office sensation in “The Perfect Storm” and the move to produce hits like HBO’s “Entourage,” which reflects his own early years in Hollywood.
But “The Fighter,” which will expand in the United States in a few weeks, marked something new for 39 years. This is a labor of love that he struggled to get made because, as much as anything, it is about a man – the boxer “Irish” Micky Ward – with whom Wahlberg has much in common.
“I can not find the reason why I would not be excited (the movie),” Wahlberg said Reuters. “And there are so many similarities between Micky and his way of life and mine.”
Both grow in the Boston area in a family with nine children. Both tough kids, and Wahlberg followed his career Ward, who some six years older than the actor.
OUTSIDE THE RING
“The Fighter” graphic rose-and-fall boxing Ward. He eventually became a champion of the middle class and the three men fight with Arturo Gatti is considered a legend.
But what movie is raving about the fights and the story of two brothers, Ward and older brother Dickie Eklund, who was a strong fighter in his own heyday and favorite son of the family before moving to crack cocaine.
Micky Ward (Wahlberg) must address not only the obstacles in the ring, but the existence of the shadow of Dicky (Christian Bale) and arrogant management of his mother (Melissa Leo). He was puzzled by his desire to ignore the drug Dickie, and the desire to not disappoint his mother’s bouts with the loss of Micky eventually drive the ring.
But Micky never give up. He builds your confidence through the love of his girlfriend Charlene (Amy Adams) and was eventually able to stand up for themselves – outside the ring.
When that happens, his career turned around.
“The Fighter” has scored 84 percent positive rating in the review website Rottentomatoes.com, and film fans in the companion site Flixster provides 79 percent of positive values.
On Friday Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan writes that the “lively” The Fighter “tried a number of maneuvers at risk and could make them pay in the end.”
Oscar watchers in Hollywood as Bale puts a strong candidate for supporting actress Academy Award. Wahlberg, Leo, Adams and the movie itself, the figure prominently in this year’s race for Hollywood film awards.
Now, after appearing on TV news magazine “60 Minutes” and many stories about him, the way Wahlberg for “The Fighter” made so famous.
Financing proved to be difficult for a film that touches the dark themes of drug abuse, but Wahlberg continues to train at the boxing gym he had built at his home. He was hired full-time coach who, while traveling Wahlberg for other films, go with him. As Micky Ward, he never throws the towel.
“I think if I stop, I’ll give the movie, and I never want to do that,” he said.
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