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Mark Wahlberg shared his wife Rhea Durham’s stunned reaction after the actor shaved his head to play his bald character in the new film Flight Risk.
During a recent interview with “Extra”, The 53-year-old actor explained that he chose to go partially hairless rather than go bald for his role in the Mel Gibson-directed action thriller.
“I don’t want to have to sit there and wait in the chair for two hours, go bald, then have to stick on pieces of hair, and then have touch-ups done,” Wahlberg said. “Like, shave it, finish it, you know, trim it in the morning because the stubble is growing through, so just shave it off and then you can have the whole day off.”
Mark Wahlberg recalled his wife Rhea Durham’s reaction to his bald look for his role in Flight Risk. (Lionsgate YouTube/Getty)
Although Wahlberg was happy with his decision, he remembered it Durham, 46, was shocked when she saw his new look for the first time.
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“She dove under the covers, bro,” Wahlberg said, laughing.
“She said, ‘Aaah, get out of here,’ but then she got used to it,” he added. “She thought it was cool after a while.”
The actor chose to shave his head instead of going bald. (Lionsgate YouTube)
Wahlberg and Durham, who tied the knot in 2009, share daughters Ella, 21, and Grace, 15, and sons Michael, 18, and Brendan, 16.
“The most priceless thing was seeing my wife’s face when I took off my hat after getting my hair cut for work that day.”
In June, Wahlberg revealed his shaved head for the first time in a photo he shared on Instagram.
“No baldness for me,” he captioned a picture of himself with his hairdresser. “We’re going all in.”
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During a June interview with People magazine, Wahlberg detailed how he achieved his character’s look.
“I shaved the middle and left the horseshoe on the sides,” he told the outlet. “Of course, every day they shaved the top as close to the scalp as possible because we didn’t have any stubble or anything like that. So I just hid them with a hat.”
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“But the most priceless thing was seeing my wife’s face when I took off my hat after getting my hair cut for work that day,” Wahlberg said at the time.
“Flight Risk” was directed and produced by Mel Gibson. (Lionsgate)
While speaking to “Extra,” Wahlberg recalled being so comfortable with the haircut that he sometimes “forgot” about it.
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“I was at a UFC event and showed up on the Jumbotron wearing a hat,” he said two-time Oscar nominee said. “I was about to take off my hat to salute everyone out of respect and I realized I had put it on.”
“And then my son tried to rip it off,” Wahlberg remembers. “I was like, ‘Dude, you can’t show the hair right now because I don’t want to blow it off for the movie.'”
The action thriller premiered in cinemas on January 24th. (Lionsgate)
“I wanted people to see it for the first time in the context of the film, whether that was the case.” [in] the trailer or the film itself.”
In addition to Wahlberg, “Flight Risk” also stars Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace. The film’s plot synopsis states: “A U.S. Marshal boards a small plane to bring a government witness to New York. As they traverse the Alaskan wilderness, tensions rise as not everyone on the plane is who they seem.”
“Flight Risk” was released in theaters on January 24th.
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