Mark Wahlberg has another movie coming out in 2014, aside from Transformers 4. Wahlberg revealed that he filmed a supporting role in William Monahan's "Mojave," which stars Oscar Isaac and Garrett Hedlund. Wahlberg is also on the cover of Esquire, with his son, for the June/July Fatherhood issue.
Wahlberg's movies "The Departed" and "The Gambler" were also written by Monahan. "Mojave" is about a near-suicidal artist (Hedlund) who escapes into the desert to deal with his existential crisis. He encounters a brilliant, homicidal drifter (Isaac). Wahlberg's part has not yet been revealed.
Wahlberg is also on the cover of Esquire, with his son, for the June/July Fatherhood issue, and opened up about his childhood, fatherhood, and getting his GED.
"I think, for the most part, I had a pretty good childhood. It wasn't until we got older that we realized we didn't have what a lot of other people had," he revealed. Wahlberg's family sometimes struggled to make ends meet but they never went without food.
"No, [we weren't hungry.] It worked out because my dad drove a truck delivering school lunches, so that meant we got a lot of school lunches," he shares. "We ate a lot of bologna sandwiches, but they also had those little Oreo packs in there sometimes."
"It was great at times and pretty traumatic at times when you were really young," Wahlberg said. "You had brothers that were teenagers and they were doing s--- that teenagers do, and you don't understand what it is or why they're doing it."
After starting the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation, which encourages and promotes youth education, 'The Departed' star went back to school to get his GED.
"I can't tell my kids to go to school and get an education if I don't have a diploma," he explains. "They'd start thinking, 'Why do we need to go?' 'You didn't go and you turned out all right.' But I'm proud to have it. If I want to go on and further my education and study film or whatever, I can do that."
Wahlberg said about fatherhood, "I think the most important thing is to always be involved in every aspect of their life. To give them enough trust that they can share things with you. I don't want them to be terrified of me, you know? But I don't want them to think they can do whatever they want and get away with it, either, because they can't."
