Mark Wahlberg shared his spouse Rhea Durham’s surprised response after the actor shaved his head to play his balding character within the new film “Flight Risk.”
Throughout a current interview with “Extra,” the 53-year-old actor defined that he opted to go partially hairless reasonably than put on a bald cap for his function within the Mel Gibson-directed motion thriller.
“I don’t want to sit there and wait two hours in the chair putting on a bald cap and then gluing pieces of hair on and then having to get touch-ups,” Wahlberg stated. “Like, shave it, be done with it, you know, trim it in the morning because the stubble grows through, so just shave it down and then be able to be free all day.”
Mark Wahlberg recalled his spouse Rhea Durham’s response to his bald search for his function in “Flight Risk.” (Lionsgate YouTube/Getty)
Although Wahlberg was happy together with his choice, he recalled that Durham, 46, was shocked when she first noticed his new look.
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“She dove under the covers, bro,” Wahlberg stated with fun.
“She was like ‘Aaah, get out of here,’ but then she got used to it,” he added. “She thought it was cool after a while.”
The actor opted to shave his head reasonably than sporting a bald cap. (Lionsgate YouTube)
Wahlberg and Durham, who tied the knot in 2009, share daughters Ella, 21, and Grace, 15, and sons Michael, 18 and Brendan, 16.
“The most priceless thing was seeing my wife’s face when I took my hat off after getting the hair cut for work that day.”
In June, Wahlberg revealed his shaved head for the primary time in a photograph that he shared on Instagram.
“No bald cap for me,” he captioned a picture of himself together with his hairstylist. “We go all in.”
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Throughout a June interview with Individuals journal, Wahlberg detailed how he achieved his character’s look.
“I shaved the middle and left the horseshoe around the sides,” he advised the outlet. “They would shave the top as close to the scalp as possible every day, obviously, because we didn’t have any stubble or anything. So I just hid it with a hat.”
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“But the most priceless thing was seeing my wife’s face when I took my hat off after getting the hair cut for work that day,” Wahlberg stated on the time.
“Flight Risk” was directed and produced by Mel Gibson. (Lionsgate)
Whereas talking with “Extra,” Wahlberg remembered that he grew to become so comfy with the hair reduce that he typically “forgot about it.”
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“I was at a UFC event and I showed up on the Jumbotron and I had a hat on,” the two-time Oscar nominee stated. “I was just about to pull my hat off to just salute everybody out of respect and I realized that I had it on.”
“And then my son tried to rip it off,” Wahlberg recalled. “I was like, ‘Dude, you can’t show the hair right now because I don’t want to blow it for the movie.'”
The motion thriller premiered in theaters on Jan. 24. (Lionsgate )
“I wanted the first time for people to see it in the context of the film, whether it was [in] the trailer or the film itself.”
Together with Wahlberg, “Flight Risk” additionally stars Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace. A plot synopsis for the film reads, “A U.S. marshal boards a small plane to transfer a government witness to New York. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions start to rise as not everyone on the flight is who they appear to be.”
“Flight Risk” was launched in theaters on Jan. 24.
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