The Kraken — 2 years ago(March 12, 2024 08:15 PM)

Mark Wahlberg only wants “age-appropriate roles” now, which means playing the dad in family movies.
This came up in an interview with Yahoo!, where he revealed that he really likes making movies “that the whole entire family can see” (so more like The Family Plan and less like Boogie Nights). “Look, I’m 52 years old now,” he explained to Yahoo!, adding that he likes “playing age-appropriate roles” these days because other actors his age “don’t embrace that” and audiences can react poorly when something like that “doesn’t seem real.” He also mentioned his four kids, so it seems like he’s specifically referring to the fact that he’s dad-aged and he wants to play dad-aged characters in movies that dads can show their kids—though Wahlberg’s youngest child is 14, so it’s not like this is a brand new thing in his life.