Mark Wahlberg Doesn't Think He'll 'Be Acting That Much Longer'
Mark Wahlberg is thinking about his future...and, notably, the 52-year-old blockbuster star questions how much longer he can stand in front of cameras: https://t.co/wyETChcFUF pic.twitter.com/eqYwP8AjaN
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 18, 2023
Mark Wahlberg is hinting at retirement from acting. “Well, I’m certainly working harder now than ever,” Wahlberg, 52, told Cigar Aficionado for the magazine’s September/October issue. “Certain businesses, you kind of build them, pass them on or you exit. Hopefully my kids, we’ll see what their interests are, but I don’t think that I’ll be acting that much longer at the pace I am now. That’s for sure. Because that’s the most difficult thing.”
Wahlberg has previously spoken about his desire to get out from in front of the camera in order to spend more time with his family. In 2022, Wahlberg told Entertainment Tonight that he’d like to retire from acting “sooner rather than later, probably.”
Elsewhere in the interview, the actor said he had five acting projects in post-production and spoke at length about his producing career, explaining that he took on the role of a producer “out of necessity.”
“I didn’t want to sit around waiting for Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise or whoever was already established before me and were the guys at the time, and Leo [DiCaprio] to go and pass on a movie until I could get my hands on it,” Wahlberg shared. “I was always proactive in trying to find material and things that I could produce, that I knew was right for me, create my own destiny.”
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