As Mark Wahlberg told the audience on The Graham Norton Show, the experience of filming 2001’s Planet of the Apes was often painful, and not only would the chimps not want to cooperate, they weren’t particularly pumped about letting him anywhere near his co-star, either.
Overall the movie doesn’t seem to have been the best experience for Wahlberg.
Although he didn’t outright say the film was awful, he did take a few other digs at the flick during his appearance on the talk show.
Although a lot of the apes in the 2001 movie were just humans in a ton of makeup, there were some live chimps on the set of the movie, as Mark Wahlberg’s character had a chimp named Pericles who really kicked off the events at the start of the film.