Mark Wahlberg Was (Briefly) Part Of New Kids On The Block
Mark Wahlberg's career almost took a very different path as he was an early member of a boyband – but was Mark Wahlberg in New Kids On The Block officially? In the early 1990s, Mark Wahlberg was best known as musician/Calvin Klein model Marky Mark, but his career took a sharp left turn once he focused on becoming an actor instead. Following roles in The Basketball Diaries and Fear, he landed the lead in 1997's acclaimed Boogie Nights. He's been a movie star ever since, rising to the level of taking central roles in movies like Netflix action-comedy Spenser Confidential. It wasn't always this way though. Here's everything you need to know about a time when the concept of a Mark Wahlberg boy band success story seemed likelier than the thought of Marky Mark being taken seriously as an actor.
Mark Wahlberg's journey from Marky Mark to receiving an Academy Award nod for his role in The Departed (and mocking his own movie in Spenser Confidential) is an eventful one, especially for those who used to follow his early career. Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch were launched to fame with their hit single «Good Vibrations» in 1991, but despite their first album being a success, the band burned out quickly. Their next album You Gotta Believe flopped and other ventures like Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch: Make My Video — a video game where players edited together some of the band's music videos — also failed, leading the group to split in 1993.
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Was Mark Wahlberg in New Kids On The Block really, though? Mark Wahlberg's early career almost turned out very differently. He was originally picked to join the group that became New Kids On The Block but quit the band
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