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- Mark interview take one. Mark?

- [sighs]

[indistinct chatter]

Oh, man.

- Yeah, go ahead. You were right.

[somber music]

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- It's tough, but it's...

it was inevitable. I know.

I've been lucky to live long enough,

and it's just, uh... part of the deal.

And it's just tough.

- I Facetimed with her.

I had to come back to work...

shoot "Stu" and the rest of it...

So there wasn't much choice.

♪ ♪

There wasn't much choice.

[spray can clicking]

[paint can hissing]

♪ ♪

[car honks distantly]

[moody music]

♪ ♪

[background chatter]

- Good.

- Quiet on the set, please. - Rolling.

- When Mark told me

that his mother had passed away the night before...

Cut for a second. - All right.

- You know, I asked him

if he was up for working that day

and, um-and he said yes.

It just so happened that we were filming

two sort of comedic scenes that day,

which made me nervous, because I thought,

"Gosh, what a tall order to ask somebody to be funny

"on, um-on a day when you're dealing

with one of the most tragic things in your life."

[crewman, indistinct]

- Hey, I hit it big, I'll take you with me

all the way to the top.

- Payment's due Monday.

- Don't sell yourself short, baby.

[taps twice]

- In hindsight, maybe that was a blessing

because to try to shoot something

deeply feeling and-and emotional instead

may have just opened the floodgates

in a way that would have been unbearable for him.

- Oh, shit.

Hollywood, baby. Hollywood! [chuckles]

God damn, we went Hollywood, kid.

Oh, shit. We made it.

- Action, camera.

- Camera rolling.

- People, I think, look at him as being superhuman

with the number of businesses he has

and how many projects he's able to take on,

and, you know, so many responsibilities.

Back to one? - Okay.

And we're cutting back to one.

- But the thing that impresses me the most

about him is he has incredible mental strength

and fortitude to be able to perform and carry on

with what had just happened.

- Hello, everybody. - Uh-oh.

- I'm so happy to meet you. - Happy to meet you too.

- I love all your shows. - Oh, thank you.

- Well, this is where I live and Kathy lives upstairs.

- Thank you for the hospitality.

- I can't wait to see your film.

- It-this is a good one. God bless you.

- I just-you know, I'm a big fan.

- Thank you. Nice to meet you.

- Bye.

♪ ♪

[plane engine whistling]

♪ ♪

- The older you get...

The more loss you experience...

If you're lucky enough to...

just stick around a long time.

♪ ♪

You know?

- Did Mark and my mom have a special relationship?

Absolutely. He was the baby.

That's just the way it is.

It made her so proud to say that

"He calls me every day from wherever he is."

Was he her favorite? I don't know.

We'll debate that forever.

- Who's your favorite? - You are.

You are my favorite.

- Am I your favorite son, yet?

- Yes. - Finally.

- Oh, come on! - You know, there was

this whole big joke- Mom's favorite.

And everybody would say, "I'm Mom's favorite."

I mean, she had this really special way

of making sure that you knew

that it was you.

You were her favorite.

♪ ♪

- Growing up as humbly

as she did and we did,

you know, that's something that-that she was proud of.

- Growing up in Boston, we grew up in a tough area.

You know, we didn't have a lot.

It was nine of us living in a three-bedroom apartment.

Two to a bed.

There was a unity, if you will, right?

And-and it was a unity

that we were tied together by poverty.

- Well, my dad and mom had to work a lot

to get us what it seemed like

everybody else had pretty easily.

- My mother worked overnight.

She'd get home, I don't-

she wouldn't even see my father.

He's already be gone to work.

- I've eaten plenty of mayonnaise sandwiches.

"Builds character. You'll be fine."

- I think we were raised to just be good people, right?

That's what my mother would always say.

I didn't matter to her how much we made.

You know, if you're successful and you're a young guy,

you're thinking, "Oh, I'm gonna get a Ferrari."

Right? And-and my mother would always sort of ground you

and be like, "Okay, but-but what-

but what are you gonna do with it," right?

Like, you have this opportunity now

to make a difference in the world.

- I worked on "Wahlburgers" for, like, seven seasons.

You really saw where the light and spirit,

the kindness that the Wahlbergs have,

was in Alma.

And I think that "Wahlburgers" gave her the opportunity

to be in the spotlight.

- I was walking through the airport

in Boston, and I walked by Wahlburgers,

and there she was on every TV.

It was great because I knew that...

Sort of the world got to know her a little bit

and how awesome she was.

- The show allowed her to feel special

because she was special.

It was everything to her.

- Bye, Alma. - Yay.

- I never anticipated that we'd have

a true friendship.

Um...

♪ ♪

- It's tough.

I recently lost my father a couple years ago.

He was on his way to see me.

When you lose someone you love...

It's tough.

And you just have to keep going.

Um...

It's tough.

- The most important thing to my mother-

she was so happy and grateful

that we all sort of found our way.

- When she was happy, we were happy.

You were convinced that what you were dealing with

was gonna be okay.

[clears throat]

♪ ♪

- The motorcycle scene is really the turning point

in Stu's journey.

It's in the wake of that that he has

this very profound spiritual experience.

It was important to me to shoot it in a way

that made it clear that Mark was

in fact riding the motorcycle.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

The big challenge of directing the motorcycle accident was

I knew that we had one take to get it right

because it was- there was a high, uh, risk

associated with that stunt.

We had this amazing stuntman, JJ.

But I only wanted to do it once.

I know the stunt guy only wanted to do it once.

We were hoping we could ace it and move on.

- Good.

- Okay, here we go.

All right. Everybody tuck in!

And three, two, one, go.

[motorcycle engine rumbling]

- Okay, cut. - You okay?

You all right?

- Certainly something happened.

That looked awful, [chuckles]

but he said it was exhilarating and he was fine.

- Yeah, baby. Great job.

[moody music]

♪ ♪

- Yeah. That's really nice. - Yeah, I think so too.

- I love that.

The whole course of

the principle photography,

all of his hair, it was all his own.

But he had shaved off all of his facial hair.

So we had to use a fake mustache and a wig.

[chuckles]

- Can't even talk like this.

- [chuckles]

- I think we have wasted all of our time coming here.

- Um, honestly, the-

the mustache is just too bushy.

- It's all too bushy. - [chuckles]

- But how-let's-let's just not shoot too close today

and then just try to have them trim it tomorrow.

- Yeah. - 'Cause it's just ridiculous.

It's like fucking Yosemite Sam.

[growls] Rrr!

- Poor guy, I know he didn't feel real comfortable.

And we're supposed to shoot in, like, five minutes.

- Just slating and then we go? - Yeah.

- I don't feel very... inspired right now.

- Action.

- He had had a hoodie on.

And so we just put the hood on

so you couldn't really see the wig.

And we found a way to make it work.

[indistinct] - All right.

- Who gives a fuck?

- [chuckles] - Better start walking.

- What?

- Come on, just-just get me the fuck

out of this thing. - Yeah.

- Unfortunately, grief is a living thing

that will visit at will.

I booked myself crazy.

I-I remember doing about 300 shows

the year my mother died,

and it waited for me to stop working.

But all I was doing was prolonging the inevitable.

It totally catches up with you.

- [sighs]

- You have to let it come as it comes.

[moody music]

♪ ♪

[indistinct chatter]

- One of the last scenes we filmed,

it was really challenging.

♪ ♪

I could tell the moment Mark walked out of his trailer

that something was not quite right.

So I took him aside and asked him if he was okay.

And-and he said yes.

- The loss of my mom a week before-

I couldn't really deal with it.

So I really kind of kept it all bottled up inside.

- Apple-1-2-2-Charlie, take one.

- It was like one take.

Just roll the cameras, and let's go.

And it just started to hit me.

And all the things that I was trying to suppress,

they started becoming very real.

Why?

[yelling] Why? [sniffles]

I wanna know why.

I wanna know- I wanna know now.

Why?

Why have you forsaken me here, now?

[weeping]

[sniffles]

What do you got me doing here like this on my-[sniffles]

on my own?

[whispering indistinctly] ...with me.

[sniffles]

- Mark is somebody who feels a lot of things very deeply

and doesn't try to shut those feelings off

but makes those a source of empowerment.

- [weeps]

- That is his brilliance as an actor.

- [sniffles, sighs]

Why did you bring me here?

- I just let him go until I knew

that I had more than enough.

- Yeah. - Cut.

- Just being able to call her.

Talk to her.

[sighs] Well, I talked to her every day until I couldn't.

- Her phone was always ringing.

And it was always one of her kids.

I think everybody in my family,

we take for granted

that that phone is gonna get picked up.

And that person

that is the most important person in the world to you

that's just always been there for your entire life

is gonna be on the other end of the phone.

- [sighs]

- I think everybody in my family

is missing that the most.

- What do I miss about my mom?

Yeah, I mean, what's not to miss about her?

She's just-you know, she was larger than life.

- [clears throat]

- Uh, I just-I miss everything about her.

Yeah. I miss everything about her.

- People have asked me, like,

"If you could have a meal anywhere, what would it be?"

And it's very simply a-a-a dish that my mom or dad made

because I can't get that anymore.

And...

That's that thing- that-that feeling of home.

You know, you wish they could make another meal.

- It hurts. It's hard. [sighs]

It just becomes, uh, unavoidable after a while.

You just gotta kind of deal with it, you know?

It's, uh-it's just- again,

it's just being on this side of-

this side of life.

♪ ♪

[background chatter]

[birds chirping]

♪ ♪

- Chef's doing this. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, Chef-y.

- [chuckles] - Mm-hmm.

- Whoa ho ho! [background chatter]

- Thank you, brother. Looks perfect.

- Blessings, amen. Thank you for the bite.

- Amen.

- One good thing within this time

is that we've been able to really spend

quality time together.

Um, and these sort of things can either,

uh, push you apart or make you stronger

and-and bring you closer together.

How good is that steak?

- Really good.

- Mm? - Good.

- Dealing with so many losses-

my mother passed away, David Stern passed away,

then, you know, Kobe and Gianna.

[sighs] You know, um...

you-you lose a piece of yourself

that forever changes you and how you look at things

and the comfort that you find in the familiar

and bringing people together.

Coming together in times of grief is

what humanity is all about.

- [indistinct] the whiskey? - Yep.

Look at him, dog. Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Calling you medium rare. - [chuckles]

Well done. [chuckles]

[soft music]

♪ ♪

- Whoa.

- Ooh. - All right.

You got that, Brendan.

- Oh, you catch it? - On the catch, you got 'em.

- Good catch.

You're frozen on the outside corner.

- I'm sorry [murmurs]. - Aw. Love you.

- I love you too.

- [indistinct]

[emotional music]

- The year that I lost my dad, strangely,

while it was probably the most painful year of my life,

it was also the year that I grew the most

in my life.

And it gave me almost the strength

to have this internal fire inside me

where I felt a sense of responsibility and conviction

to live up to the expectations of our loved ones.

- I promised my dad when he died

that I'd make him proud of me, because his vision-

in his life he didn't have enough time to manifest it.

And so I'm-I'm completing that cycle for him, right?

He would be proud of this moment.

- [grunting]

- They want you to carry on.

They want you to-to be your best.

- Show him your will.

Show him your will. - I got it.

- You hear me? - I got it.

[chuckles]

I love this shit, man.

This is what I do. [grunts]

- Let's go, let's go.

♪ ♪

[indistinct chatter]

- And action.

- The last scene we shot, when Mel is watching Stu

wheel up to the care center and disappear in there-

so it's the last moment between those two characters-

um, gosh, I got really-

I got-I got teary-eyed watching that.

There was something so... so beautiful and understated

about the exchange and the moment.

- Cut.

- That's cut.

- And that is a picture wrap,

and "Father Stu" is done.

[applause]

- Whoo-hoo.

- It's the end of, uh... the end of the run,

and I was kind of emotional.

- I've made 50 some odd movies,

and I've never seen as many people care

and involved and working for the same cause.

And, uh, you know, this movie is certainly special to me.

And it's all about love.

I really appreciate everybody's work.

I felt that from every single person here.

I really appreciate all you guys.

Thank you. God bless you.

I bless you all. [applause]

Stu's journey and finally finding his purpose,

and then how well he handled with grace and dignity

all that he faced and all the adversity-

it kind of helps put things in perspective,

that's for sure.

[indistinct chatter] - Why can't we use the bus?

♪ ♪

- If we don't capitalize on it now,

we're gonna miss out on opportunities.

Momentum is everything.

Lot of moving parts, too, by the way.

But, you know, let's get it going.

♪ ♪

I still got the same attitude.

I'm more hungry now than I've ever been.

♪ ♪

[chuckling]

- They have you scheduled, like, every waking minute.

- Yeah. - He's gonna be just nonstop.

- No, no, no. Well, listen, we've been doing it

every city that we've gone to.

- Well, I just don't want my people to kill you.

- No, no, no. - 'Cause they-

- It's just part of what we're doing.

- It's the whole chain. - Yeah.

- Um...wow. - Great.

- I haven't been in a restaurant

since my mom passed.

- Wow.

♪ ♪

- Mama, I love you. We miss you.

[kisses] Muah.

♪ ♪

Yeah.

I know.

She's certainly the reason why all this happened.

All the good in our lives is

from all the hard work that she put in.

Yeah. Yeah. Ma.

All right. How are you, sir? Good to see you, brother.

Appreciate your hard work.

- What's up, buddy? - Hi.

- How are you? - Good, how are you?

Nice to see you. - Nice to see you.

- So we're gonna go to the Grimes store

in front of the Wahlburgers kiosk.

There's a prompter, so it should go real quick.

- And I'm at Wahlburgers,

and I'm looking at these sliders.

And this burger... and oh, my gosh,

can you say hi? - Hey.

- Who is your favorite Optimus Prime or Bumblebee?

- Bumblebee. - I know them both very well.

Thank you guys. - Thank you so much.

- I appreciate it. It's a pleasure.

- All right. Everybody smiling?

[heavy, emotional chords]

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[stirring music]

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