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Mark Wahlberg, who stepped in at the last minute to play the anguished father in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, told reporters that he found the role a challenge but welcomed the chance to observe filmmaking by the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings helmer.

In the movie, based on Alice Sebold’s novel, Wahlberg plays Jack Salmon, the father of Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan), a 14-year-old girl who was brutally raped and murdered and watches from heaven how the crime affects her parents and family. Wahlberg joined the production days before it started, after original cast member Ryan Gosling dropped out.

“The last-minute [thing] was fine,” Wahlberg said in a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Oct. 12 while promoting his next film, Max Payne. “The only thing, again, I was worried about was dealing with the subject matter and having to go to that place, which is also why Max Payne was such a great release afterwards, because the other side of me would want to go out and wreak havoc on whoever was responsible, and I got to do that through this film.”

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold – Movie Interview.

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