Mark Wahlberg – ‘Brokeback Mountain’
Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger seem like the perfect actors to cast in Brokeback Mountain, a film about a couple of sheep herders in Wyoming who maintain a sporadic and tortured homosexual relationship for 20 years despite their marrying their respective girlfriends. However, Director Ang Lee wanted Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg were to play the main characters in the beginning if you can believe it. Wahlberg, who actually read 15 pages of the script, said that he was ‘creeped out’ by the graphical sex scenes in the script and thus passed on the role upon the advice of their parish priest. He also said that the script was very descriptive and graphic– thus, generating a ton of controversy in the process.
Mark Wahlberg – Brokeback Mountain