Heed Wahlberg has printed why he handed on a fair in the 2001 movie Ocean’s Eleven.
For the period of Thursday’s episode of the Satisfied Sad Puzzled podcast, the Boogie Nights star explained that he had to claim no to Steven Soderberg’s star-studded heist movie as a outcome of he turned into as soon as already committed to Planet of the Apes and The Truth About Charlie.
“I turned into as soon as asked to assemble the movie, and what came about turned into as soon as, we asked if they would look ahead to me. However I had already committed to working with Tim Burton (on Planet of the Apes) and Jonathan Demme (on The Truth About Charlie), and for me, despite the indisputable truth that those movies did now not end as a lot as be fair appropriate, those experiences were tremendous,” Wahlberg told host Josh Horowitz. “And likewise you know what? At that level, I turned into as soon as level-headed genuinely attempting to develop as an actor.”
Wahlberg admitted he “wasn’t elated at the notion” of doing a Planet of the Apes remake but he felt it turned into as soon as price the misfortune to work with Burton, and whereas 2002’s The Truth About Charlie “did now not end up fair appropriate”, he level-headed has fond recollections of the manufacturing.
“I had one in every of the tremendous times of my career, my lifestyles, you know, off-explain,” he persevered. “It turned into as soon as genuinely, genuinely an improbable journey in loads of the way.”
Circling help to Ocean’s Eleven, he added, “So they did now not roughly desire to wait but I turned into as soon as ready to assemble my hold thing with (his 2003 heist remake) The Italian Job, which turned into as soon as fair appropriate.”
Ocean’s star George Clooney printed final 365 days that Wahlberg and Johnny Depp turned down the fair of Linus, which went to Matt Damon.
“Some very eminent of us told us to f**good enough correct off,” Clooney acknowledged about casting the movie at the 2023 TCM Movie Festival. “Heed Wahlberg, Johnny Depp. There were others. They remorse it now.”
Ocean’s Eleven spawned two sequels and a crawl-off movie.
