Catherine Hardwicke vrs. Mark Wahlberg

Catherine Harwicke: 'The Fighter' Producers' Sexism Stopped Me From Directing The Film

Commented Feb 8, 2011 at 09:22:12 in Entertainment

“Obviously a publicity stunt by Catherine Hardwicke. This was all about, and all because of Mark Wahlberg. Men's Health did a great (& incredibly inspiring) cover story about the five years he worked to make this movie happen. Originally "he had some big names on board—Brad Pitt was to play Ward's half brother, and Darren Aronofsky was to direct—it hadn't been given the green light." Both had to pull out because of the delays - but Wahlberg kept training for his film- and kept `playing the game' to make his dream come true. Great reference to "Wahlberg and Scorsese didn't get along too well", during the making of the great movie `The Departed'.­. After the movie was over, Wahlber went out of his way to create a better relationsh­ip with Scorsese who eventually became an executive producer and directed the first episode (Scorsese doing television­?) of Wahlbergs second hit television series (first being `Entourage­') `Boardwalk­. Empire'. For Wahlberg's baby -The Fighter- he was only going to choose someone he knew, someone he trusted, someone he had worked with before. Since Hardwicke didn't fulfill any of these job requiremen­ts - her being a woman is a mute (and lame) point. {Ref: http://www­.menshealt­h.com/cele­brity-fitn­ess/mark-w­ahlberg-fi­ghter-work­out.} ( ...but I guess she gets points for getting her name in the news.)”