Mark Wahlberg is Marky Mark?
Damn! 
I didn’t know there was somebody who didn’t know that. He left music for film early on and dropped the Marky Mark thing quickly.
All I could think of during the few minutes that I watched the interview is what Mark Wahlberg and Laura Logan did together after the shooting was finished…
Well, there can be some confusion between Mark Wahlberg and Mark Walberg, two different people.
I guess I live a sheltered life. And I thought he was pretty good at the Marky Mark thing.
How old are you? IME, people older then 35-40 or younger then 20-25 tend to know of Marky Mark, in that they’ve heard the song Good Vibrations. IME it’s the people that are ‘children of the 90’s’ that saw the video enough times and were exposed to him often enough that they either recognized him, knew what his real name was when he was signing or when he started acting and someone mentioned who he was it didn’t go in one ear and out the other because they were familiar with his work.
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I would PAY to see Mark Wahlberg host Antiques Roadshow sometime.
This is the first time in my life that I’ve seen Marky Mark and Good Vibrations in the same sentence.
But I did know that he now goes by his full name.
I’m 65. I was aware of him for a while, but must have missed, or forgotten (in a fog ;)) the transition.
Proves one thing though, talent is talent.
Huh. I always thought he was an okay musical performer, but didn’t really take him seriously as having a lot of talent. I kind of looked at him as leveraging his last name (shared by his then much-more-famous brother Donny) to get a recording contract.
When he started acting, again, I kind of transferred that sentiment and thought he’d prove to be ridiculous, make a few movies, and fall out of the business. I was wrong and I’m not too proud to admit that.
Funky Bunch, not Beach Boys.
No way! I don’t think anyone expected this acting thing to go well. I mean, he went from rap/techno/whatever star to underwear model to…really good actor. It was a huge leap.
I got on board after I saw Boogie Nights.
Yeah, he earned my grudging respect too.
I never knew him as other than a goofy attention-getting act; I didn’t even WANT to hear any of his music. (Um…still not sure I ever have…) So when he went to the acting thing, and didn’t suck…and then showed some pretty decent chops, well…I was surprised. Happily, though. 
However, Jerry Lewis is not Jerry Lee Lewis.
Jay North /= Peter North.
He was at his best when hawking underwear. Yum!
I don’t think of “talent” as meaning “I like” or “I don’t like”. I think talent is the ability to do a thing better than most people can. Penny Marshal must have saw something of his talent.
I didn’t see the movie. I hear it was pretty good.
I first heard of/saw him in Boogie Nights. I never knew him as “Marky Mark” so my first exposure was as a very good actor. He’s been in a few bad ones, but most of his movies are good-to-great and he himself is always worth watching.
It’s like Brad Pitt. I first took big notice of him as the creepy spree killer in Kalifornia, so when I heard people refer to Pitt as a shallow pretty boy, I was mystified. The actor playing the frightening and freaky and terrifying and dirty Early Grayce, a pretty boy? You must be kidding. (later I realized I had seen Pitt before, in Thelma and Louise and liked him, but didn’t know his name and forgot about him)
I always call him Marky Mark. I want a talk show host to ask him about The Funky Bunch one day.
Maybe he should try this show.