By Iain Blair

Chatting with Mark Wahlberg whose latest movie is the big actioneer Max Payne. It marks a welcome change of pace for the star after dramatic turns in The Departed (which got him an Oscar nom), The Happening and The Lovely Bones, which he just shot with Peter Jackson.

“I love doing action, so it was great to get back into a big action film,” he told me. He also said he loved shooting in Toronto where principal photography on Max Payne began on March 3, 2008.  Filming on the 50-day shoot took place in a myriad of locations in Toronto ranging from the subway system, to the city’s busy financial district and sprawling waterfront, as well as on the Cinespace and Toronto Film Studio stages.

The film is based on the popular Max Payne videogame series which debuted in 2001, and while the actor agrees that most games don’t translate to the big screen, he’s confident that Max Payne will please both movie fans and gamers. As for the upcoming The Lovely Bones, it was directed by Peter Jackson, partly in New Zealand, which was amazing,” he says.

Wahlberg is also the executive producer of HBO’s Entourage for which he received three Golden Globe® nominations, and most recently garnered seven Emmy® nominations, and he told me that the new season “Will be totally crazy – someone dies, but it’s a big secret.”

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