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Mark Wahlberg Reveals the Surprising Reason He Began to Produce His Own Movies · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Wahlberg has a reputation in town for being a
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  Speaker 2: canned do kind of guy and taking the bill by
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  Speaker 2: the horns. In a recent sit down with Cigar Ficcionado,
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  Speaker 2: he revealed that attitude helped him cement his acting career
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  Speaker 2: by becoming a producer, saying, I started becoming a producer
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  Speaker 2: only out of necessity. I didn't want to sit around
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  Speaker 2: waiting for Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise or Leo or whoever
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  Speaker 2: was already established before me and were the guys at
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  Speaker 2: the time to pass on a movie before I could
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  Speaker 2: get my hands on it. I was always proactive in
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  Speaker 2: trying to find material things that I could produce that
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  Speaker 2: I knew was right for me to create my own destiny.
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  Speaker 2: Mark also admits he feels he probably won't be acting
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  Speaker 2: much longer at this point because of how much more
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  Speaker 2: of a toll it takes than his other businesses. Mark
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  Speaker 2: is plenty more projects and production before he hangs it up,
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  Speaker 2: including the action comedy The Family planned come an Apple
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  Speaker 2: TV plus likely next year
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