Mark Wahlberg has opened up about the personal investment he made to get his new movie Father Stu made after failing to secure financial backing.
Elsewhere in the same interview, Wahlberg revealed he’s had to move churches multiple times because he kept getting pitched movie ideas.
Speaking of his inspiration from Gibson, Wahlberg added: “So I felt Mel had done it with The Passion, maybe I try it.
Father Stu tells the true story of Stuart Long (played by Wahlberg), a boxer who became a Catholic priest while struggling with a progressive muscle disorder called inclusion body myositis.