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Why Mark Wahlberg Invested Millions of His Own Dollars to Make ‘Father Stu’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, we typically hear about
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  Speaker 1: a list actors getting paid millions of dollars to make
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  Speaker 1: a movie, not forking over eight figures of their own money. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what Mark Walbert has done with his new
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  Speaker 1: movie Fathers Too, because the faith based film meant that
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  Speaker 1: much to him. He was inspired by Mel gibson similar
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  Speaker 1: experience in making The Passion of the Christ and even
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  Speaker 1: ended up casting Melas as co star and Fathers Too.
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  Speaker 1: And in the end, Mark is happy with his decision
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  Speaker 1: because he was able to make the film he envisioned.
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  Speaker 1: Telling Insider, I slipped the scriptive people that I thought
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  Speaker 1: maybe would get it, and they didn't. And obviously it's subjective.
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  Speaker 1: You have your own feeling of what the material is.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't see the heart and the emotion and ultimately
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  Speaker 1: how inspiring it is. So I thought Mel had done
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  Speaker 1: it with The Passion, maybe I'd try it and if
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  Speaker 1: I did find a finance here typically the person cutting
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  Speaker 1: the check wants to be involved in the process, so
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  Speaker 1: I felt it's better if I just step up and
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  Speaker 1: have complete control. Mark did relinquish some creative control the
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  Speaker 1: first time director Rosalind Ross Father Student Theaters. That's direct
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  Speaker 1: from Hollywood.