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It seemed, at first, like a no-brainer,” Wahlberg shrugs, THE FIGHTER “amazing parts, wonderful story, a new and interesting world you’re not that familiar with, but it just wasn’t meant to be.” Three Kings of the Ring After losing both Matt Damon and Brad Pitt, who would have played Bale’s role, and director Darren Aronofsky, who by SaSha PeRl-RaVeR eventually signed on as a producer instead, Wahlberg says he “had to grab a hold of [the film] and force it to happen out Mark Wahlberg, Christian bale and david of sheer will and determination.” Though, when it came to O. Russell aren’t men who shy away from a fight. Each has a casting Bale, the inspiration came in the least likely of places. haunting tale from the past where their dark side got the best “These guys met at preschool, right?” director Russell of them; whether it’s Wahlberg’s early prison stint on assault asks his two leads. charges, Bale’s notorious on-set rant or Russell attempting “Yeah, dropping off my daughter,” Bale grins. Whilden JoJo to choke out George Clooney while filming Three Kings. “[Mark] looked across the parking lot, saw Christian But when the three men bound into a press conference to Bale and was like, ‘BING!’” Russell laughs. Christian bale and Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter promote their new film, The Fighter, it’s all jokes and hugs “What I said was, ‘There is the guy who’s not scared of and laughs. This time, it seems, all the drama stayed on the this part,’” Wahlberg corrects. “Everybody loved the idea nature, the addiction, as if that was something fascinating screen. of [playing a drug addict] but nobody wanted to commit to see,” Bale adds. “We both felt, we’ve seen that in so many The Fighter is the true story of boxer “Irish” Micky Ward and go there.