10 Actors Who Were Horribly Mismatched To Their Character Professions

7. Mark Wahlberg - Science Teacher (The Happening)

The Happening I don't know why exactly I can't believe Mark Wahlberg as a Philadelphia science teacher, but something about it never rung true to me, which is also the reason why The Happening is one of the worst movies ever made: none of feels plausible for even a second. Wahlberg, obviously better-suited to playing disgruntled cops and, like, tough guys who shake other tough guys down for money, seems awkwardly unsuited to play a teacher. He's not a University Lecturer or anything, by the way - he's just an ordinary science teacher in an ordinary school. What does that tell you about how intelligent I think Mark Wahlberg characters should be? Anyway, our favourite Bostonite later admitted that the movie was terrible, but " for wanting to try to play a science teacher. At least I wasn€™t playing a cop or a crook." He's too damn badass for science teacher, I guess.
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