Although he has calmed down in the past few years, it is known that before Mark Wahlberg's movies became successful, the former rapper and Calvin Klein model was a big Hollywood bad boy, and in his teenage years he even committed a racially driven crime, for which he has asked for a pardon.
Having played versions of himself in a lot of his films, Mark Wahlberg's movies often portray the actor as a tough guy and bad boy altogether, which is basically how he spent the early years of his youth, having been convicted over assault and battery, marijuana possession and even criminal contempt for violating a civil rights injunction.
According to The Guardian, one of the victims of the actor's teenage crimes has spoken out publicly, stating that in spite of Mark Wahlberg's movies' success, he shouldn't be pardoned by the state of Massachusetts, after he and some of his white friends threw rocks and slurs as a group of black fourth grade students in the mid 80s.
Back in November 2014, Wahlberg issued an official request for a state pardon, although this was for a different incident that occurred two years later; that time, he attacked two Vietnamese men, as he attempted to steal beer, assaulting them in such a manner that the two men ended up in the hospital and Wahlberg in jail.
The Associated Press reports that Kristyn Atwood, one of the victims of the physical and emotional attacks that came many years before Mark Wahlberg's movies, as he was only a teenager, has spoken out in regards of his recent pardon request.
''I don't really care who he is," Atwood said to the press about Wahlberg, according to People Magazine. "It doesn't make him any exception. If you're a racist, you're always going to be a racist. And for him to want to erase it I just think it's wrong."
Among Mark Wahlberg's movies there's "Boogie Nights," the Oscar-winning film "The Fighter" and the Martin Scorsese movie "The Departed."
