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• FLAWED BUT COMPLITED: ‘JOE BELL’ STARS MARK WAHLBERG AS A DAD ON A JOURNEY OF REGRET OVER HIS DEAD, GAY SON
• THE POWERFUL TE STORY BEHD 'JOE BELL', ABOUT A FATHER WHO HONORS HIS GAY SON AFTER HIS DEATH
• IS MARK WAHLBERG MARRIED OR GAY
• JEN YAMATOUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 4:21PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 22, 2015 9:32AM EDT LUS JACKSON/RTERSAS AMERINS AWA THIS WEEK’S SUPREME COURT LG ON SAME-SEX MARRIAG, GAY-RIGHTS SUPPORTERS HAVE AN UNLIKELY ALLY OUT OF HOLLYWOOD: THE FOUL-MOUTHED, KE-SNORTG, CIDLY UN-PC TALKG TEDDY BEAR OF TED 2. POWER A-LISTER MARK WAHLBERG RN WH WRER-DIRECTOR SETH MACFARLANE FOR A SEQUEL TO THEIR SURPRISE 2012 BROMANTIC EDY TED, UNIVERSAL PICTUR’ $549 LN H ABOUT BOSTON EVERYMAN JOHN BENT’S BFFSHIP WH HIS MAGILLY SENTIENT CHILDHOOD TOY.“I WASN’T GOG TO MAKE ANOTHER ONE UNLS WE ULD MAKE DIFFERENT, AND MAKE BETTER THAN THE FIRST,” WAHLBERG TOLD THE DAILY BEAST VIA PHONE ONE RECENT AFTERNOON, HEAD TO THE LOUISIANA SET OF THE TE TRAGEDY DRAMA DEEPWATER HORIZON. “WHEN HE FALLY PCHED ME THAT IA I WAS LIKE, NOW WE’RE ONTO SOMETHG.”“THAT” IA IS A DOOZY FOR AN R-RATED STUD EDY. THIS TIME AROUND, TED THE ABRASIVE TEDDY BEAR DCH THE HOOKERS AND BLOW TO MARRY HIS HUMAN GIRLIEND, TAMI-LYNN. AFTER A DISASTRO ATTEMPT AT NCEIVG VIA SPERM DONOR—TED IS MA OF STUFFG, NOT FLH, AFTER ALL—THE UPLE TRY TO ADOPT ONLY TO BE TOLD THAT THE FERAL ERNMENT DO NOT REGNIZE TED AS A PERSON, OR THEIR UNN AS LEGAL. WH HIS LIFE, FAY, AND INTY ON THE LE, TED TURNS TO A BONG-RIPPG LAWYER (AMANDA SEYIED) TO FIGHT THE MAN AND TAKE HIS E ALL THE WAY TO THE SUPREME COURT.CALL MR. TED GO TO WASHGTON. TED 2 LIVERS AN UNEXPECTED AND UNEXPECTEDLY UNSUBTLE CIVICS LSON ON AMERIN CIVIL RIGHTS BATTL OM THE SLAVE ERA TO THE PRENT HIDN BENEATH S BRO-BAG R-RATED SEMEN GAGS, WEED SSNS, AND NERD-NICHE COMIC-CON REFERENC.THE IA STCK MACFARLANE WHILE THE FAY GUY CREATOR WAS MAKG HIS 2014 WTERN A MILLN WAYS TO DIE IN THE WT AND FOUND SPIRATN THE DRED STT SE. WAHLBERG, ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST VOL CELEBRY CATHOLICS, WEL THE NTROVERSY THE FILM MIGHT STIR EVEN AS HE PREDICTS MIGHT NOT REGISTER WH SOME MOVIEGOERS TED 2’S YOUNG MALE MOGRAPHIC.“SOME WILL AND OBVLY SOME WON’T, AND ’LL GO RIGHT OVER THEIR HEADS, BUT THE FACT THAT ’S THERE FOR THE MORE AWARE AND MORE NSC VIEWER MAK GREAT,” SAID WAHLBERG, UTLY FLECTG ANY EPER POLIL AGENDA TO MACFARLANE.“I’M NOT TRYG TO OFFEND ANYBODY,” HE SAID. “WE’RE BRGG UP THE ISSU BUT AT THE SAME TIME TRYG TO MAKE A MOVIE THAT’S ENTERTAG, WH PEOPLE LEAVG THE THEATER FEELG HAPPY BUT ALSO A LTLE B MORE AWARE THAT NOT EVERYBODY IS BEG TREATED EQUALLY, AND THAT’S NOT RIGHT.”THAT’S NOT TO SAY TED 2 ISN’T AS LIBERATELY OFFENSIVE AND VULGAR AS S PRECSOR, OR THAT EXPLOG GAY PANIC FOR LGHS AND LETTG S TEDDY BEAR PROTAGONIST, VOICED BY MACFARLANE, DROP THE F-WORD—BEE THAT WOULD CERTALY VE OUTRAGE G OUT OF A HUMAN CHARACTER’S MOUTH. A SHOT AT THE TRANSGENR MUNY (“THERE ARE NO CHICKS WH DICKS, JOHNNY, ONLY GUYS WH TS”) DREW FIRE WHEN WAS REVEALED THE TED 2 TRAILER AND REMAS THE FILM, BUT REMAS TO BE SEEN IF DIENC WILL EMBRACE TED 2 AS PROGRSIVELY SUBVERSIVE OR AGGRSIVELY SENSIVE.THE OSR-NOMATED WAHLBERG MOSTLY LEAV THE OFFENDG TO TED, BUT SUBMS HIMSELF TO A FEW CRGE-DUCGLY VULNERABLE SUATNS HIMSELF. IN ONE SCENE, THE STOIC THPIAN ENDUR A SLIPPERY SUATN A SPERM DONATN CLIC HE ADMS HE THOUGHT TWICE ABOUT.“I READ THE SCRIPT, AND I WAS LGHG HYSTERILLY AT THAT SCENE AND NTUED TO FLIP TO THE NEXT PAGE AND THE NEXT AND THE NEXT,” WAHLBERG RELLED. “THEN I OZE, LIKE, ‘OH, SH, THIS IS GOG TO HAPPEN TO ME.’ I THOUGHT, ‘WELL, ULD BE WORSE.’ I DON’T KNOW TOO MANY WAYS TO MAKE WORSE, BUT ULD BE WORSE. THE ONLY THG I ULD THK OF WAS SLUMDOG MILLNAIRE, WHEN THOSE GUYS JUMP TO THE POO, OR HEADHUNTERS WHEN THE GUY’S HIDG THE OUTHOE AND HAS TO E A TOILET PAPER ROLL TO GET OXYGEN. BUT WAS JT SUCH A FUNNY MOMENT, I THOUGHT, ‘OKAY, I N LET GO OF MY OWN SECURI AND JT GO WH .’”ANOTHER MEMORABLE TED 2 SCENE WAS MA POSSIBLE WHEN THE BOSTON NATIVE PULLED A FEW STRGS TO GET NEW ENGLAND PATRTS QUARTERBACK TOM BRADY THE FILM, RIGHT BEFORE THE START OF HIS SUPER BOWL-WNG 2014 SEASON N.ASK WAHLBERG ABOUT HIS PAL BRADY AND HIS PATS PASSN TAK OVER. “THE FIRST GREAT THG TO HAPPEN TO THE PATRTS WAS BOB KRAFT BUYG THE TEAM. THE SEND GREATT THG TO HAPPEN TO THE PATRTS WAS BILL BELICHICK G TO ACH. AND THE THIRD AND FALLY THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF THE PUZZLE WAS TOM BRADY G FOR A HURT DREW BLEDSOE AND BEG THE STARTG QUARTERBACK,” WAHLBERG CLARED.IT WAS WAHLBERG WHO WAS TASKED WH EXPLAG A SUBPLOT WHICH TED AND JOHN PLOT TO BREAK TO THE NFLER’S HOE TO STEAL HIS SPERM. “SETH HAD WRTEN THE SCENE AND FELT THE BT WAY TO APPROACH HIM WOULD BE THROUGH ME, BEE WE HAVE A GREAT IENDSHIP,” SAID WAHLBERG. “SO I LLED HIM, AND AFTER HE STOPPED LGHG HYSTERILLY FOR I DON’T KNOW HOW LONG HE SAID, ‘OF URSE, I’D LOVE TO.’”BRADY’S SCEN WERE FILMED “BEFORE HE WENT ON TO W THE SUPER BOWL AND CLAIM HIS SPOT AT THE TOP AS THE GREATT QUARTERBACK OF ALL TIME,” WAHLBERG SAID, WH A LGH. “I GOTTA SLIP THAT EVERY CHANCE I GET.”UNIVERSAL EXECS DATED TED 2 FOR A JUNE 26 RELEASE, OPENG NEAR THE SAME FOURTH OF JULY AME THAT TURNED THE FIRST RNCH-FT TO A SURPRISE NO. 1 H. THE FILM ALSO JT THREE WEEKS AFTER THE WAHLBERG-PRODUCED ENTOURAGE MOVIE BOMBED, FALLG FAR SHORT OF BOX OFFICE EXPECTATNS AND TANKG WH CRICS. A TWO-FILM H SUMMER WASN’T THE RDS FOR THE ACTOR-PRODUCER.“I WAS A LTLE B SURPRISED AT THE BACKLASH,” ADMTED WAHLBERG, WHO ALSO MEOS ALONGSI BRADY AND DOZENS OF CELEBS THE MOVIE ADAPTED OM THE HBO SERI BASED ON HIS OWN LIFE. “BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? WE WERE A CRIL DARLG AND A LTLE GUILTY PLEASURE, AND ALL OF A SUDN WHEN BEME HUGELY POPULAR, PEOPLE BEGAN TO TURN ON —PEOPLE THE MEDIA.” “BUT WE MA FOR FANS OF THE SHOW, AND FOR A MOVIE TO GET THAT BAD OF A REVIEW AND STILL GET AN A- CEMASRE TELLS YOU SOMETHG. THERE’S A LOT OF HATE OUT THERE. WE WERE HOPG TO PTURE A WHOLE NEW SLEW OF FANS WE ULD TRODUCE THE SHOW AND THE GUYS TO, BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU TAKE A SHOT. WE TOOK A SHOT. I HAD ENOUGH PEOPLE G UP TO ME SAYG THE SHOW END TOO SOON AND THAT THEY WANTED MORE, AND I WAS ABLE TO GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WERE ASKG FOR.”AFTER STARRG LAST YEAR’S BLOCKBTER FOURQUEL TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTCTN, WAHLBERG SAYS HIS FUTURE WH THE ROBOT MEGAANCHISE IS UNCERTA: “I’D BE HARD PRSED TO DO WHOUT [MICHAEL] BAY, THAT’S FOR SURE.”MEANWHILE, THE FATHER OF FOUR AND EXEC PRODUCER OF THE ROCK’S NEW HBO SERI BALLERS RN THIS CHRISTMAS WH HIS THE OTHER GUYS -STAR WILL FERRELL FAY EDY DADDY’S HOME AND IS CURRENTLY WORKG WH HIS LONE SURVIVOR DIRECTOR PETER BERG ON DEEPWATER HORIZON, ABOUT “THE PEOPLE WHO RISKED THEIR LIV TO PROVI THE OIL THAT WE E OUR DAILY LIFE.”HE’S ALSO OKG UP A FILM ABOUT THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBG, ALTHOUGH “WE’RE NOT SURE IF WE’RE GOG TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT MOVIE MA. BUT MY REASONG FOR WANTG TO BE A PART OF IS TO SHOW HOW STRONG, HOW RILIENT PEOPLE N BE. LIKE LONE SURVIVOR, WE’RE PAYG TRIBUTE TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE AFFECTED BY THE HORRIBLE TRAGEDI.” JEN YAMATO
• IS MARK WAHLBERG GAY?

FLAWED BUT COMPLITED: ‘JOE BELL’ STARS MARK WAHLBERG AS A DAD ON A JOURNEY OF REGRET OVER HIS DEAD, GAY SON

Based on a te story, the movie follows "an Oregonian father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jad, embarkg on a self-reflective walk across Ameri to speak his heart to heartland cizens about the real and terrifyg sts of bullyg, " reads a scriptn prented last month alongsi the movie's official trailer. "I have always been acceptg of my gay son om day one, but there are so many parents who are not, " she add.

My youngt has recently told me she's gay and I uldn't be more proud of her [for] livg her te self, " said a third.

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THE POWERFUL TE STORY BEHD 'JOE BELL', ABOUT A FATHER WHO HONORS HIS GAY SON AFTER HIS DEATH

It tells the story of Bell's spirg walk followg the loss of his 15-year-old son Jad, who died by suici 2013 after beg bullied for beg gay. There’s a rocky road to remptn for Joe Bell and the actor playg him, both gradually reckong wh an uneasy history of homophobia.

When explag why he didn’t want to take a role Brokeback Mounta, an fantile Mark Wahlberg admted that the gay sex scene “creeped” him out and when released, he didn’t sh to see bee jt wasn’t his “al”.

IS MARK WAHLBERG MARRIED OR GAY

Cut to 15 years later and he’s now takg the lead of the next film wrten by the Osr-wng duo behd , a fact-based drama about the dangers of homophobic bullyg, a curly … queer cisn for the star and one that should make for a fascatgly unfortable prs paper such a blunt move might seem horribly lculated, pecially for an actor also puttg out other, even bigger fir om his past, but there’s somethg disarmgly genue about the film, a ltle obv at tim perhaps, but also remarkably unfivg. In one of the standout scen, Joe viss a gay bar and lends his ear to those si, anger risg at a faiar story of church-supported prejudice and he proceeds to liver a damng, if faiar, dictment of Catholicism, verg up the real s of sexual abe while expellg those who were born gay. Joe’s missn, while noble, was never gog to be enough, not to brg Jad back or make him feel like any ls of a failure or tly change a society that still regularly remds many gay kids that they’re not accepted.

In January 2013, a gay 15-year-old named Jad Bell, om La Gran, Oregon, hanged himself om a piece of playground equipment and, after beg kept on life support for several weeks, died early Febary that year. He was a sophomore high school. A gay son and his father who n bond over Lady Gaga lyrics.

A gay son who ss on his father’s talks to the public and gets to offer his own criqu, potg out the ways that Joe has settled to a pattern of preachg to the choir: The people showg up at his talks, particularly once he’s gaed notoriety, already know what he’s about, and are already at mimum prepared to hear what he has to say. But what about the random homophob biker gear that Joe overhears spoutg sual hatred a der, or the people — there are many of them — who have nothg to offer Joe but nontatn? And the qutns Jad’s ghost pos early the movie — of Joe’s tenncy to avoid the harr battl, failg to nont the homophob he enunters the wild favor of preachg to the choirs of people drawn to his onle phenomenon and, th, plsibly already sympathetic — are never really renciled by eher Joe or the movie.

JEN YAMATOUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 4:21PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 22, 2015 9:32AM EDT LUS JACKSON/RTERSAS AMERINS AWA THIS WEEK’S SUPREME COURT LG ON SAME-SEX MARRIAG, GAY-RIGHTS SUPPORTERS HAVE AN UNLIKELY ALLY OUT OF HOLLYWOOD: THE FOUL-MOUTHED, KE-SNORTG, CIDLY UN-PC TALKG TEDDY BEAR OF TED 2. POWER A-LISTER MARK WAHLBERG RN WH WRER-DIRECTOR SETH MACFARLANE FOR A SEQUEL TO THEIR SURPRISE 2012 BROMANTIC EDY TED, UNIVERSAL PICTUR’ $549 LN H ABOUT BOSTON EVERYMAN JOHN BENT’S BFFSHIP WH HIS MAGILLY SENTIENT CHILDHOOD TOY.“I WASN’T GOG TO MAKE ANOTHER ONE UNLS WE ULD MAKE DIFFERENT, AND MAKE BETTER THAN THE FIRST,” WAHLBERG TOLD THE DAILY BEAST VIA PHONE ONE RECENT AFTERNOON, HEAD TO THE LOUISIANA SET OF THE TE TRAGEDY DRAMA DEEPWATER HORIZON. “WHEN HE FALLY PCHED ME THAT IA I WAS LIKE, NOW WE’RE ONTO SOMETHG.”“THAT” IA IS A DOOZY FOR AN R-RATED STUD EDY. THIS TIME AROUND, TED THE ABRASIVE TEDDY BEAR DCH THE HOOKERS AND BLOW TO MARRY HIS HUMAN GIRLIEND, TAMI-LYNN. AFTER A DISASTRO ATTEMPT AT NCEIVG VIA SPERM DONOR—TED IS MA OF STUFFG, NOT FLH, AFTER ALL—THE UPLE TRY TO ADOPT ONLY TO BE TOLD THAT THE FERAL ERNMENT DO NOT REGNIZE TED AS A PERSON, OR THEIR UNN AS LEGAL. WH HIS LIFE, FAY, AND INTY ON THE LE, TED TURNS TO A BONG-RIPPG LAWYER (AMANDA SEYIED) TO FIGHT THE MAN AND TAKE HIS E ALL THE WAY TO THE SUPREME COURT.CALL MR. TED GO TO WASHGTON. TED 2 LIVERS AN UNEXPECTED AND UNEXPECTEDLY UNSUBTLE CIVICS LSON ON AMERIN CIVIL RIGHTS BATTL OM THE SLAVE ERA TO THE PRENT HIDN BENEATH S BRO-BAG R-RATED SEMEN GAGS, WEED SSNS, AND NERD-NICHE COMIC-CON REFERENC.THE IA STCK MACFARLANE WHILE THE FAY GUY CREATOR WAS MAKG HIS 2014 WTERN A MILLN WAYS TO DIE IN THE WT AND FOUND SPIRATN THE DRED STT SE. WAHLBERG, ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST VOL CELEBRY CATHOLICS, WEL THE NTROVERSY THE FILM MIGHT STIR EVEN AS HE PREDICTS MIGHT NOT REGISTER WH SOME MOVIEGOERS TED 2’S YOUNG MALE MOGRAPHIC.“SOME WILL AND OBVLY SOME WON’T, AND ’LL GO RIGHT OVER THEIR HEADS, BUT THE FACT THAT ’S THERE FOR THE MORE AWARE AND MORE NSC VIEWER MAK GREAT,” SAID WAHLBERG, UTLY FLECTG ANY EPER POLIL AGENDA TO MACFARLANE.“I’M NOT TRYG TO OFFEND ANYBODY,” HE SAID. “WE’RE BRGG UP THE ISSU BUT AT THE SAME TIME TRYG TO MAKE A MOVIE THAT’S ENTERTAG, WH PEOPLE LEAVG THE THEATER FEELG HAPPY BUT ALSO A LTLE B MORE AWARE THAT NOT EVERYBODY IS BEG TREATED EQUALLY, AND THAT’S NOT RIGHT.”THAT’S NOT TO SAY TED 2 ISN’T AS LIBERATELY OFFENSIVE AND VULGAR AS S PRECSOR, OR THAT EXPLOG GAY PANIC FOR LGHS AND LETTG S TEDDY BEAR PROTAGONIST, VOICED BY MACFARLANE, DROP THE F-WORD—BEE THAT WOULD CERTALY VE OUTRAGE G OUT OF A HUMAN CHARACTER’S MOUTH. A SHOT AT THE TRANSGENR MUNY (“THERE ARE NO CHICKS WH DICKS, JOHNNY, ONLY GUYS WH TS”) DREW FIRE WHEN WAS REVEALED THE TED 2 TRAILER AND REMAS THE FILM, BUT REMAS TO BE SEEN IF DIENC WILL EMBRACE TED 2 AS PROGRSIVELY SUBVERSIVE OR AGGRSIVELY SENSIVE.THE OSR-NOMATED WAHLBERG MOSTLY LEAV THE OFFENDG TO TED, BUT SUBMS HIMSELF TO A FEW CRGE-DUCGLY VULNERABLE SUATNS HIMSELF. IN ONE SCENE, THE STOIC THPIAN ENDUR A SLIPPERY SUATN A SPERM DONATN CLIC HE ADMS HE THOUGHT TWICE ABOUT.“I READ THE SCRIPT, AND I WAS LGHG HYSTERILLY AT THAT SCENE AND NTUED TO FLIP TO THE NEXT PAGE AND THE NEXT AND THE NEXT,” WAHLBERG RELLED. “THEN I OZE, LIKE, ‘OH, SH, THIS IS GOG TO HAPPEN TO ME.’ I THOUGHT, ‘WELL, ULD BE WORSE.’ I DON’T KNOW TOO MANY WAYS TO MAKE WORSE, BUT ULD BE WORSE. THE ONLY THG I ULD THK OF WAS SLUMDOG MILLNAIRE, WHEN THOSE GUYS JUMP TO THE POO, OR HEADHUNTERS WHEN THE GUY’S HIDG THE OUTHOE AND HAS TO E A TOILET PAPER ROLL TO GET OXYGEN. BUT WAS JT SUCH A FUNNY MOMENT, I THOUGHT, ‘OKAY, I N LET GO OF MY OWN SECURI AND JT GO WH .’”ANOTHER MEMORABLE TED 2 SCENE WAS MA POSSIBLE WHEN THE BOSTON NATIVE PULLED A FEW STRGS TO GET NEW ENGLAND PATRTS QUARTERBACK TOM BRADY THE FILM, RIGHT BEFORE THE START OF HIS SUPER BOWL-WNG 2014 SEASON N.ASK WAHLBERG ABOUT HIS PAL BRADY AND HIS PATS PASSN TAK OVER. “THE FIRST GREAT THG TO HAPPEN TO THE PATRTS WAS BOB KRAFT BUYG THE TEAM. THE SEND GREATT THG TO HAPPEN TO THE PATRTS WAS BILL BELICHICK G TO ACH. AND THE THIRD AND FALLY THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF THE PUZZLE WAS TOM BRADY G FOR A HURT DREW BLEDSOE AND BEG THE STARTG QUARTERBACK,” WAHLBERG CLARED.IT WAS WAHLBERG WHO WAS TASKED WH EXPLAG A SUBPLOT WHICH TED AND JOHN PLOT TO BREAK TO THE NFLER’S HOE TO STEAL HIS SPERM. “SETH HAD WRTEN THE SCENE AND FELT THE BT WAY TO APPROACH HIM WOULD BE THROUGH ME, BEE WE HAVE A GREAT IENDSHIP,” SAID WAHLBERG. “SO I LLED HIM, AND AFTER HE STOPPED LGHG HYSTERILLY FOR I DON’T KNOW HOW LONG HE SAID, ‘OF URSE, I’D LOVE TO.’”BRADY’S SCEN WERE FILMED “BEFORE HE WENT ON TO W THE SUPER BOWL AND CLAIM HIS SPOT AT THE TOP AS THE GREATT QUARTERBACK OF ALL TIME,” WAHLBERG SAID, WH A LGH. “I GOTTA SLIP THAT EVERY CHANCE I GET.”UNIVERSAL EXECS DATED TED 2 FOR A JUNE 26 RELEASE, OPENG NEAR THE SAME FOURTH OF JULY AME THAT TURNED THE FIRST RNCH-FT TO A SURPRISE NO. 1 H. THE FILM ALSO JT THREE WEEKS AFTER THE WAHLBERG-PRODUCED ENTOURAGE MOVIE BOMBED, FALLG FAR SHORT OF BOX OFFICE EXPECTATNS AND TANKG WH CRICS. A TWO-FILM H SUMMER WASN’T THE RDS FOR THE ACTOR-PRODUCER.“I WAS A LTLE B SURPRISED AT THE BACKLASH,” ADMTED WAHLBERG, WHO ALSO MEOS ALONGSI BRADY AND DOZENS OF CELEBS THE MOVIE ADAPTED OM THE HBO SERI BASED ON HIS OWN LIFE. “BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? WE WERE A CRIL DARLG AND A LTLE GUILTY PLEASURE, AND ALL OF A SUDN WHEN BEME HUGELY POPULAR, PEOPLE BEGAN TO TURN ON —PEOPLE THE MEDIA.” “BUT WE MA FOR FANS OF THE SHOW, AND FOR A MOVIE TO GET THAT BAD OF A REVIEW AND STILL GET AN A- CEMASRE TELLS YOU SOMETHG. THERE’S A LOT OF HATE OUT THERE. WE WERE HOPG TO PTURE A WHOLE NEW SLEW OF FANS WE ULD TRODUCE THE SHOW AND THE GUYS TO, BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU TAKE A SHOT. WE TOOK A SHOT. I HAD ENOUGH PEOPLE G UP TO ME SAYG THE SHOW END TOO SOON AND THAT THEY WANTED MORE, AND I WAS ABLE TO GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WERE ASKG FOR.”AFTER STARRG LAST YEAR’S BLOCKBTER FOURQUEL TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTCTN, WAHLBERG SAYS HIS FUTURE WH THE ROBOT MEGAANCHISE IS UNCERTA: “I’D BE HARD PRSED TO DO WHOUT [MICHAEL] BAY, THAT’S FOR SURE.”MEANWHILE, THE FATHER OF FOUR AND EXEC PRODUCER OF THE ROCK’S NEW HBO SERI BALLERS RN THIS CHRISTMAS WH HIS THE OTHER GUYS -STAR WILL FERRELL FAY EDY DADDY’S HOME AND IS CURRENTLY WORKG WH HIS LONE SURVIVOR DIRECTOR PETER BERG ON DEEPWATER HORIZON, ABOUT “THE PEOPLE WHO RISKED THEIR LIV TO PROVI THE OIL THAT WE E OUR DAILY LIFE.”HE’S ALSO OKG UP A FILM ABOUT THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBG, ALTHOUGH “WE’RE NOT SURE IF WE’RE GOG TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT MOVIE MA. BUT MY REASONG FOR WANTG TO BE A PART OF IS TO SHOW HOW STRONG, HOW RILIENT PEOPLE N BE. LIKE LONE SURVIVOR, WE’RE PAYG TRIBUTE TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE AFFECTED BY THE HORRIBLE TRAGEDI.” JEN YAMATO

“It’s hard to stand strong plac where there are more church than there are gays, ” a man tendg a gay bar tells Joe after sharg his own g-out story.

IS MARK WAHLBERG GAY?

“I never let him know was OK, ” says Joe, his enunter wh the kdly p who feeds him, a man whose own son, Joe learns, is also gay.

Mark Wahlberg's new film Joe Bell tells the heart-wrenchg te tale of one man's csa agast the forc that stroyed his son for beg gay.