“I put on 30 pounds and went from being a guy who was in fighting shape to a guy who was wheelchair-bound, suffering from a rare muscular generative disease,” the 50-year-old recently told Entertainment Weekly.
“I was just turning 50 by the time we finished the movie, and I was eating 11,000 calories a day,” he shared.
Wahlberg, who chronicles his daily no-nonsense workouts, described how he put on the pounds for the role.