Raising concerns about the fighter’s admittedly wooden performance in Furious 7, the studio head pushed Berg to find a big-name star, like Will Smith, to take on the part of Silva, a shadowy “intelligence hack who’s shoveled shit on four continents” whose role in the movie was tertiary: nothing a superstar would normally consider. Per a New Yorker profile of Mile 22 studio STX: Mile 22 was supposed to be a martial-arts-heavy star vehicle for Rousey, but the studio grew hesitant that she’d be able to carry a movie. Almost every other time she’s shown in the trailer, she’s just jamming a magazine into a semi-automatic weapon. In the trailer, the only time she opens her mouth is to yell “Move! Move!” because she wants someone to move, move. I am not sure how much she speaks, however. How Many Lines Does Ronda Rousey Have in ‘Mile 22’?įormer MMA star/ current WWE star/person-who-is-in– Furious 7 Ronda Rousey is very much in this movie. Later in the trailer, he tells someone, “You’re chaos, but I think I might be worse,” and this is his facial expression: Stills via STX Entertainment And it’s not the only time Marky gleefully grins during a moment that calls for seriousness. Look at the joy on his face! He’s so happy! This is not the face of a man threatening another man it’s the face of a man who just heard about a 50-cent wing deal at Applebee’s. And then Marky replies: STX Entertainment You see, this guy ( The Raid 2’s Iko Uwais) wants the United States to smuggle him out of a country (they don’t say which because it doesn’t matter) his government says he’s a low-level cop, but Marky’s smarter than that: “Your sitting here indicates he’s not so low-level,” Marky says to the government guy. The exchange that happens at the 1:03 mark is just perfect.
Why Is Mark Wahlberg Smiling When He Says All His Lines? You start to notice things when you watch a trailer on loop for an hour. The trailer for Mile 22 dropped Tuesday morning, and it’s everything you could possibly want from a Wahl-Berg collab: vague mentions of clandestine operations, references to Harry Truman, Marky staring down the scope of a gun, and so on and so forth. Now, if you had bum-rushed me on the street yesterday and asked “What’s Mark Wahlberg’s next movie?!” of course I would have been like, “I don’t know, some military thing directed by Peter Berg?” So it’s just nice to be able to live in certainty now. Look, I hadn’t been aware that Mark Wahlberg had a Peter Berg movie coming out about a group of ghost operatives.