Mark Wahlberg and The Moral Challenge to Entourage

When evaluating a work an authors more distant past shouldn’t matter, I say, but Entourage is supposed to be about Wahlberg and he is the mind behind it as executive producer. I can’t help think biography. How do I know he really turned around? How do I know the high rolling in Hollywood isn’t the enacting of those fantasies he had as a outrageous and hateful youth? Maybe he only cooled down because he got rich? Without knowing more about Wahlberg I can’t come down definitively– maybe he made a huge turnaround, maybe he made helping people his number one priority as a way of burying for good that old part of himself, which I imagine isn’t very compatible with an Entourage lifestyle– and I don’t want to make big presumptions– but either way I can’t help thinking about that the mind behind Entourage, the executive producer and real life equivalent of Vince, once beat up people and was motivated by hate, and knowing this and not knowing otherwise, all this makes the indulgence in chicks, pot, and hot cars all of a sudden have a gangster, sick and dirty feel to it; the gay jokes, the bashing of ugly girls, all that becomes more serious when you think someone once motivated by hate and full of violence at least sanctions it as exec producer. All I want to say, for me, learning this took away some of the “innocent fun” of Entourage. I’m sure he’s a good guy, but someone write about this turnaround on Wikipedia, please, so I can enjoy Entourage more.

Moral rambling aside, amazing actor!