Mark Wahlberg couldn’t boogie his way out of the backlash to his appearance at the 2023 SAG Awards.
The “Boogie Nights” alum presented the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture to the cast of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” during this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony on February 26. The predominantly Asian and Asian-American cast was heavily favored to win the prize.
Wahlberg was previously convicted of assaulting two Vietnamese-American men in 1988. Wahlberg, who was 16 at the time and allegedly high on Pcp, hit Thanh Lam in the head with a stick and punched Johnny Trinh in the face to steal alcohol. Per investigators, Wahlberg used racist language at the time of the attack (via Rolling Stone).
Wahlberg was accused of beating Trinh to the point that he lost sight in one of his eyes; however, those injuries were pre-existing and sustained in the...
The “Boogie Nights” alum presented the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture to the cast of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” during this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony on February 26. The predominantly Asian and Asian-American cast was heavily favored to win the prize.
Wahlberg was previously convicted of assaulting two Vietnamese-American men in 1988. Wahlberg, who was 16 at the time and allegedly high on Pcp, hit Thanh Lam in the head with a stick and punched Johnny Trinh in the face to steal alcohol. Per investigators, Wahlberg used racist language at the time of the attack (via Rolling Stone).
Wahlberg was accused of beating Trinh to the point that he lost sight in one of his eyes; however, those injuries were pre-existing and sustained in the...
- 2/27/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Everything Everywhere All at Once continued its awards season tear at the SAG Awards Sunday night, Feb. 26. Three of the film’s stars — Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Ke Huy Quan — won individual acting prizes, while the entire ensemble took home Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
It was this last award, however, that has stirred up some controversy — not because of the winner, but the presenter: Mark Wahlberg. As the predominately Asian cast of Eeao took the stage, Wahlberg’s presence raised eyebrows considering his...
It was this last award, however, that has stirred up some controversy — not because of the winner, but the presenter: Mark Wahlberg. As the predominately Asian cast of Eeao took the stage, Wahlberg’s presence raised eyebrows considering his...
- 2/27/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Back before Mark Wahlberg was Mark Wahlberg, and even before he was Marky Mark, he was a teenage hooligan. In 1988, a 16-year-old Wahlberg attacked Thanh Lam, breaking a stick over his head and calling him a "Vietnam fucking shit." Running away from the scene of that crime, he then punched another Vietnamese man Hoa Trinh in the face so severely he blinded him in one eye. According to the police report, he then made a number of "unsolicited racial statements about 'gooks' and 'slant-eyed gooks.'" Wahlberg was tried as an adult and sentenced to two years in prison. He was released after 45 days. Wahlberg is petitioning the state of Massachusetts to have this expunged from his record. "I am deeply sorry for the actions that I took on the night of April 8, 1988, as well as for any lasting damage that I may have caused the victims,"...
- 12/6/2014
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
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