Agile Mark Wahlberg saved a scared stuntman on the set of his new film. Wahlberg is said to have coordinated the rescue effort for a guy who was trapped in a car that had flipped upside down into a ditch and was quickly filling with water.
This is yet another hero story from The National Enqurier’s Mike Walker, so take it for what it is, but it could be true:
[Mark Wahlberg] pulled off a spectacular real-life act of heroism in his new flick “Shooter” when a driver stunting for him swerved on a hairpin turn, went sideways and punged into a water-filled ditch. THe car flipped, ending up submerged on its roof. Strapped in and trapped, the terrified driver panicked as water flooded the compartment, slowly sealing his doom.
Quick-thinking Mark took charge – shouting for the crew to call for emergency vehicles. He ordered a dozen guys to jump on the rear of the car, thereby raising the front end and keeping the driver’s head above water. Mark and crew worked feverishly to free the driver until an emergency crew arrived to finish the job. The stuntman, shaked but okay, gurgled a hearfelt “thanks” to Marky Mark.
[From The National Enquirer print edition, April 9, 2007]
Maybe it wasn’t as perilous as all that, especially if it was just a ditch, but it does sound like Wahlberg saved the day by figuring out that they should weigh the car down to keep the driver’s head above water.
People were warning me not to fawn too much over Catholic dad Wahlberg when I covered a interview with him last week. Commentors reminded me that Mark said he was “creeped out” by the prospect of a gay role in Brokeback Mountain and that as a teen his brutal attack on two Vietnamese men was racially motivated.
Still, if he really did take charge of this guy’s rescue I can fawn a little. He’s attractive and down to earth, and he seems to be quite a decent guy. Oh hell, I’m blinded by his hotness, I’ll admit. I can’t wait to see another movie with Wahlberg and Damon in it. They are starring in The Fighter together. If the rumored Departed follow-up is a prequel, they’ll both probably be in that too, but if not we’ll at least get to see Wahlberg in his foul-mouthed glory.
I don’t think you shouldn’t be smitten with him. He wasn’t creeped out by playing a gay man he was creeped out by the graphic sex scenes, which he said were very detailed in the screenplay… I can’t really blame him for being a little creeped out by that. I wouldn’t say that it makes him homophobic so much as he wasn’t really sure he’d want to do gay sex on screen. I mean Im giving him the benefit of the doubt until I hear him say something really homophobic or prejudice before I say he is.
Why does a straight guy HAVE to be comfortable w/ acting out gay sex scenes? Maybe it’s just not his bag (baby). Doesn’t mean he hates anyone.
And teens do a lot of stupid crap. And he said that he had a major change of heart in the slammer. He’s not the same snot nosed little punk he was growing up..
So I say..
Marky Mark is still Dreamy!! He even learns from his mistakes! Yay for not being a moron! And yay for being yummy..
Yes, yes, exactly!!! Why is it that if a straight man doesn’t want to act out gay scenes he’s a monster? I’ve read a slightly different version of him being worse than Hitler in every blog I’ve come across about him all over the InterWeb since this story first raised it’s head and it’s gotten really old. He’s a heterosexual man who doesn’t want to make real or fake sweet love to another man, there’s nothing wrong with that any more than there is with a homosexual man being a homosexual man. Let the “He no likie the gay sex” story freakin’ die already for the love of Gawd.
(PS: Amen to the yummy part too… Testify!!)