- During his appearance on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Thursday, Mark Wahlberg said that his "Spenser Confidential" costar Post Malone showed up to his first day of filming with a 12-pack of Bud Light.
- The actor recalled that the musician was "a little nervous" and told Jimmy Kimmel, "We're shooting in an actual prison in Walpole State Prison, and he's coming over to the set finally. He's got his 12-pack of Bud Light."
- "You can't bring that in there," Wahlberg said he told Malone, adding, "I can probably get one in a Dunkin' Donuts cup but that's pretty much it."
- "He did an outstanding job," Wahlberg said, referring to the musician's performance, before joking, "They never check the Dunkin' Donuts cup,"
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Post Malone scored his first feature film role in Netflix's action-comedy "Spenser Confidential," in which he plays an incarcerated man alongside the movie's leading actor Mark Wahlberg.
During Wahlberg's appearance on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Thursday, the "Lone Survivor" actor noted that Malone tried to bring a 12-pack of beer to the set, which was a real prison.
"He was a little nervous in his first scene. We're shooting in an actual prison in Walpole State Prison, and he's coming over to the set finally. He's got his 12-pack of Bud Light," he told Jimmy Kimmel (at the 9:25 mark).
Wahlberg recalled telling the "Circles" rapper, "You can't bring that in there," and added, "I can probably get one in a Dunkin' Donuts cup but that's pretty much it."
Although it was Malone's first time shooting a movie, Wahlberg said, "He did an outstanding job," and joked, "They never check the Dunkin' Donuts cup."
Malone wasn't the only person making their onscreen debut in "Spenser Confidential."
Wahlberg realized that the film's director, Peter Berg, chose to shoot some of the scenes next door to Wahlberg's childhood home in Boston.
After jogging through memories spent on the front porch of his house, the actor shared that he decided to recruit local talent for the film.
"Two of my dear friends who had had a couple of run-ins with the law and served a little time in the state of Massachusetts and the federal government had actually gotten out, and they had never been in a movie or on a movie set," Wahlberg told Kimmel (at the 10:24 mark.)
He continued, "So I said, 'I got a part for you guys' and I actually made them guards. They both play — fantastic by the way — prison guards in the prison in Massachusetts."
Wahlberg joked, "It was nice to be able to bring it full circle."
During an interview on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in January 2020, Wahlberg explained that "Spenser Confidential" was based on a show he watched as a child called "Spenser: For Hire," which was also filmed in his hometown.
"It was actually shot in Boston, so it was really one of the few times I actually saw neighborhoods that I grew up in and that I was familiar with on television," Wahlberg said.
The actor added that viewers can expect more than one film, since "Spenser Confidential" is based off of 48 books. "We're hopefully doing a couple more of them," he told Ellen DeGeneres.
"Spenser Confidential" begins streaming on Netflix on March 6.
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