Judging from the movie theater lobby chatter after a showing of the hit film “Boogie Nights,” some people are discovering Mark Wahlberg for the first time.
The film’s young star already has had a rather interesting career that has taken him from hip-hop singer Marky Mark, dropping his pants onstage, to Calvin Klein model, posing in underwear, to actor who, as part of a 5-picture deal, previously starred in “Renaissance Man,” “Fear” and “Traveller.”
Tough to keep track?
Wahlberg knows this, and last month he told a Los Angeles Times reporter, “First I was this street hoodlum. Then I was this street singer who some people accused of not even being from the streets. Then I’m a homophobe. Then I’m a homosexual. I have been misread and misinterpreted from the start.”
He might have a handle on it now: “Marky Mark is a big part of Mark Wahlberg, but a more trumped-up version. Marky Mark is an energetic, wild kid who pulls his pants down. Mark Walhberg has grown into a young man.” (A young man who now drops his pants on-screen.)
