Mark Wahlberg Talks The Gambler, The Six Billion Dollar Man, Deep Water Horizon, and More — collider.com

With director Rupert Wyatt’s (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) The Gambler opening Christmas Day, I recently participated in a roundtable interview with Mark Wahlberg .  As most of you know from the trailers, the remake stars Wahlberg as a literature professor whose gambling spirals out of control, affecting both himself and those around him.  The film also stars Brie Larson, Jessica Lange, John Goodman, and Michael K. Williams.  As you might imagine with a script by The Departed scribe William Monahan, the film is loaded with incredible dialogue and tense, edge-of-your-seat sequences.

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