Mark Wahlberg Spoils The Departed For Yahya Abdul-Mateen

Mark Wahlberg & Yahya Abdul-Mateen II sit down to talk By Any Means... Mark as real-life mob hitman Greg Scarpa, Yahya as FBI agent Wayne Strider and then dig into scenes from their own careers. Mark tells the wild story of almost turning down The Departed (and hanging up on his own agent over it), plus the real reason for that shower cap in the film's final scene. Yahya discusses Wonder Man's cancellation right after his Emmy nomination, working with Sir Ben Kingsley, and looks back at The Get Down, his first-ever job, next to where he is now.

Go see By Any Means, in theaters September 4th.

Chapters:

00:00 – Intro

00:38 – By Any Means: building Wayne Strider & Greg Scarpa

05:36 – Shooting the film's hardest scenes

08:41 – THE DEPARTED

08:55 – Wahlberg almost turned down the role (the Ari phone call)

10:58 – The hair extensions / shower cap story

13:31 – WONDER MAN

13:49 – Yahya on the Season 2 cancellation

15:58 – Working with Ben Kingsley