10 Actors Who Didn't Understand Their Own Movie
4. Mark Wahlberg - The Happening
Mark Wahlberg is known for playing roles in action movies, and he's made a pretty good career out of it. That doesn't mean he won't branch off to try something new from time to time, and when M. Night Shyamalan came calling in 2008, Wahlberg answered, and took on the role of Elliot Moore in The Happening.
The movie was pretty much panned by critics and the majority of people who saw it. It technically made a small profit, but it holds an 18% on Rotten Tomatoes, and that's not good. The movie is strange, and the plot is silly—so silly it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Wahlberg gave his performance as best he could, but underneath his acting veneer stood a man who didn't understand the film's premise, and even worse, he hated it. He revealed this in an interview while telling a story about a lunch he had with Amy Adams:
"And then I was still able to…I don’t want to tell you what movie…all right, The Happening. F**k it. It is what it is. F**king trees, man. The plants. F**k it. You can’t blame me for not wanting to try to play a science teacher. At least I wasn’t playing a cop or a crook."