Mark Wahlberg admitted that portraying Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell — the protagonist of Universal’s Afghanistan war tale “Lone Survivor”— was more than a bit unnerving. “I never felt more pressure playing someone, but I’ve never felt more pride,” Wahlberg said, following the screening Wednesday night at the TV Academy in North Hollywood. “It was a hard movie to make with Marcus there.”
Luttrell received a standing ovation at the start of the Q&A, moderated byTina Brown. Writer-director Peter Berg and star Taylor Kitsch were also on hand. The film recounts the failed 2005 attempt to capture a Taliban leader and is based on Luttrell’s book “Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10.” Luttrell needed over a minute to simply list all his injuries and admitted that adjusting to post-soldier life has been a challenge. “I missed the adrenaline, I missed my buddies,” he allowed. “My wife keeps me out of the shadows.”
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