Grieving father role close to the bone for Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg struggled to play a man whose daughter was brutally murdered.

Mark Wahlberg struggled to play a man whose daughter was brutally murdered.

The Hollywood actor – who plays a father in Peter Jackson's movie 'The Lovely Bones', whose daughter is raped and murdered – said he nearly turned down the role because he had a baby on the way in real life.

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