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Mark Wahlberg 'Apologized' to Cast After Filming Flight Risk Because He Was So 'Locked Into' Villain Role

Mark Wahlberg tells PEOPLE he "apologized at the end of" shooting his new movie 'Flight Risk' for keeping to himself on set in order to stay in the villain's mindset. "If we weren't shooting, I was like either off in the corner by myself or I just would kind of go back to my little dressing room," he says.

In his new thriller Flight Risk, the Boogie Nights actor, 53, plays a hit man pretending to be a pilot, whose latest targets are U.S. marshal Madelyn ( Michelle Dockery) and Winston ( Topher Grace), a fugitive who she has detained out of Alaska. Wahlberg is not just any villain in Flight Risk — his character torments his adversaries throughout the movie as they joust physically and verbally for control over a small passenger plane in the Alaskan wilderness. "I've been saying over and over how much I love movies like The Shining with [ Jack Nicholson] and In The Line of Fire with [ John Malkovich] and Cape Fear with[Robert] De Niro.

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