Mark Wahlberg "creeped out" by "Brokeback Mountain"
I'm really annoyed with Mark Wahlberg right now. In the current issue of "Premiere" magazine, the Oscar-nominated star of "The Departed" talks about how he was given the script for "Brokeback Mountain." Apparently, it was just too much for a man who made a living off gay men lusting over his underwear-clad body:
"I met with Ang Lee on that movie, I read 15 pages of the script and got a little creeped out. It was very graphic, descriptive - the spitting on the hand, getting ready to do the thing. I told Ang Lee, ‘I like you, you’re a talented guy, if you want to talk about it more…’ Thankfully, he didn’t. I didn’t rush to see Brokeback, it’s just not my deal… Obviously, it was done in taste - look how it was received."
Let me just say that I'm quite sure he would NEVER have gotten the role in "Brokeback Mountain" once Heath Ledger read for it because Ledger (pictured in a scene from the film)had the maturity, understanding and soul to inhabit the character of Ennis. Which performance do you remember more? Heath's or Phillip Seymmour Hoffman in "Capote" which won the Oscar? And which Wahlberg performance will you remember more? None yet, that's for sure.
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Wahlberg has always been kind of a homophobe. I'm suprised you didn't know that. Even when he did the underwear ads. I doubt he thought he was doing them to please gay men. Have you seen Four Brothers. In that movie his character is always calling his little brother queer and implying that he sucks dick. Walhberg has never been known for being gay friendly.
While Mark is entitled to personal opinion, he of all people, should keep it in reservation. He shouldn't accept homophobe roles in films, and he shouldn't bite the hand that fed him.
On magazine covers, he comes across as calculating and over confident.
Even his name is not exclusive. PBS' Antiques Road Show's host, a non glamorous bespectacled guy, bears the same name.
It is therefore most fitting to use Wahlberg's infamous Marky-Mark underwear photo as the cover image for my underground, gay-revolutionary opus, "Steal This Blog":
http://www.gay-bible.org/steal
Without first requesting his permission, of course.
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Zeke Krahlin
Queer Visionary Extraordinaire
(and a handsome cuss to boot, though which boot I won't say)