Mark Wahlberg and Director Peter Berg have teamed up for their fourth collaboration.
The action thriller Mile 22 pushes Modern Warfare to its limit as
an elite special ops team is tasked with crossing a city that has exploded into chaos.
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According to the government we do not exist, but we're very real, but unpredictable, highly trained and we save millions of lives.
If we fail there is no backup plan. We are Overwatch, but we get things done.
I was on edge this entire movie. Not just a little bit of it, but the whole movie, like it just, it had me vibrating. Why do you think that is?
Well that was the goal. We wanted to create a really smart
intense character-driven action movie. Then once we step on the gas and we're
on the mission then it's just non-stop action. Yeah it moves fast, doesn't it?
Yeah. I felt that watching the movie. I was amazed, like all that, all that overlaying
of the elements in the film and the whole Overwatch element. We all got
trained to film it completely prepared with the skill set and then go, and so
much of it was go, at speed, in a car, through the mountains, and the city. On fire. On fire.
My government is planning an attack on the United States. Can I trust you? Put me on a plane and I give you everything.
Now you and Peter have worked together many times before. How was this different?
This is the first time that we're making a movie that's not based on a true story and a tragic event.
Ready, and action.
I wanted to take a movie off. I'm doing these these nonfiction stories, Lone Survivor and Deep Water and Patriots Day.
I kind of fell in love with Iko. I was blown away by his soul, his emotional depth, and
obviously what he can do physically, and I was like, I want to make a movie with Iko.
Look, let me see your looks. It felt like we were just coming into a well-oiled machine, you know,
like those two have such a banter, Pete is such a character and he, he
just sort of like really shepherds you through the experience of the movie.
This is our idea of fun. So we got to have fun, we got to tear it up.
Deliver that package to here, Mile 22. Let's take a drive.
Was it exhausting? It was cause with all the training and everything else that I was doing for
Pete, even though it didn't really require it, he just wanted me to look
different than I looked in other films that I've made with him, so he wanted me
to be as ripped as possible. It was really cool, yeah, we were all in
Atlanta together and they found like this abandoned hotel that they were going to
tear down soon, and they gave us all like real guns and blanks and like put us in
there with like a Navy SEAL, an Army Ranger and a Marine, and they're like, have fun for a week learning stuff.
Are you feeling calm Alice? Not even a little. Are you? I'm totally calm. That's because you're mentally unstable. Thank you. Dammit, move.
And Iko for you, for this being your first American film, (Yeah) what is that, how do you feel?
It's beyond my expectation. I mean, like you know, it's
first my experience when I worked with the handsome director so you know it's
like a compliment for me, I can't I can't describe my mind because
it's really happy, and you know it's such an honor to work with those guys.
I just so enjoyed watching the film because he's compelling as a fighter and
he's, he just has such magnetism as an actor.
Are you going to keep coming to me until you kill us all? Is that your game today. It's a weird game, but okay, I'll play.
You mentioned the training, what was that involved, how did that work out for you you?
You know, well Pete, you know in Patriots Day, I had a bad leg and you know, I was
overweight, and in Deepwater Horizon I was eating nothing but fried foods and
overweight, you know being a rig worker, and then Lone Survivor I just
happened to come in out of shape because I did the two other movies before that.
So he was like I want the rip Mark Wahlberg, I never got the rip Mark Wahlberg. So I'm
like okay, so five months of training, strict diet, and then the first day we go
to work he's like, alright let's go to dinner and have a drink. I'm like, no I can't Pete.
Mark just threw you under the bus. He said that (Wouldn't be the first time) he said you
wanted a ripped up Mark Wahlberg, but then you kept inviting him to dinner.
I waited till we were like a month into shooting. I respected his diet. Then when
I thought, even if he started putting on weight, he wouldn't put it
on that quick. So I only invited him out to dinner once I felt like we got enough
shooting so that it wouldn't look like I got the big Mark. I wanted to ripped up Mark.
Kaboom. Kaboom. Keep it once you got him going to the top.
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