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| Kidnap story captured Mark Wahlberg’s attention |
“I got a little sting at the (premiere) party,” he said at Miami’s ocean-set Mandarin Oriental Hotel of the spider bite that has his hand under an ice bag, “and it swelled up like a balloon.”
“Pain & Gain” casts Wahlberg , Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie as Florida bodybuilder-trainers whose bizarre mid-1990s scheme to kidnap and rob a client resulted in torture, murder and the longest trial in Dade County history.
While the TV spots emphasize the comedic aspects of these lunkheads, the $26 million “Pain” is actually a dark dive to the underside of the American Dream.
“This did remind (me) of ‘Boogie Nights,’ Wahlberg said of his breakthrough role as a fictitious porn star 16 years ago, “(where I got to play) a really outrageous character set in a really different kind of world. The whole world of bodybuilding is fascinating to me.
“I read the script and it says ‘based on a true story’ and it’s like that’s impossible,” he continued.
“And lo and behold, you do your research and find out that this stuff really happened. Actually we had to take some stuff out because it was too unbelievable, too farfetched, if you can believe that based on what you see in the movie. It was fascinating.”
For criminal mastermind Daniel Lugo, Wahlberg, 41, wanted to “play the role as realistic as possible. He was an interesting guy. To the end he believed that he was gonna get away with it, and that he was right” to torture, murder and steal to achieve his American Dream.
“I only had a little bit of information about Danny that I learned. I would have been open to the idea of talking to him” — on Florida’s Death Row — “but they didn’t recommend it. So I didn’t want to push it.”
News Source : bostonherald.com
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