Mark Wahlberg has gotten more than he bargained for!
The actor and organizer of the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards) has drawn criticism since he presented the award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture to the cast of the 2022 film “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” on Sunday night. Many believed he was the wrong person to give praise to the predominantly Asian actor, given his time in prison for a hate crime against two Asian men in the late 80s.
Twitter Users Showcase Their Disbelief At Mark Wahlberg’s SAG Awards Engagement
Although the ceremony was filled with glitz and glamour, the SAG Awards audience was disappointed when Wahlberg took the stage to deliver a nod to “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”
Within hours, the event had become a hot topic on Twitter, with some calling out SAG-AFTRA — the labor union responsible for organizing the show — for asking the 51-year-old actor to hand over the trophy.
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An angry person tweeted that having the “Ted” star handle such a moment was “extremely evil,” especially since he was a “racist” who nearly ended the life of an Asian man and took away his second sight.
Reporter Bonnie Stiernberg recorded that “having Mark Wahlberg, who was actually imprisoned as a teenager for committing a hate crime against a Vietnamese man, present the award to the actor of Everything Everywhere All At Once was certainly an option.”
Third tweep found “SO interesting” that Will Smith wasn’t allowed to present the Best Actress award following his famous Oscar drama, while Wahlberg was allowed to present “an ensemble award to a film with a mostly Asian cast when he punches and nearly blinds a Vietnamese man.”
Reporter Jeff Yang kidding that the “Father Stu” actor must have been shocked to “watch a bunch of Asians beat up white people,” and the fifth remembered again that he “chased a group of black children, threw rocks and “beat a Vietnamese man with a stick until it broke. he blinded another viet man. upon his arrest he called them both g**ks and sl*nts.”
The sixth critic tweeted that it’s great that the “Pain & Gain” star can stand on stage with “all those Asians without attacking any of them.”
Amidst the ongoing drama, some supporters are standing up for Wahlberg stating that he has paid for his crime, with one questioning, “WHO DIDN’T DO A STUPID SH*T AT 16. TODAY MARK IS A CHRISTIAN WHO ATTENDS CHURCH REGULARLY. THAT PERSON FORGIVE MARK A LONG TIME AGO. THE INNOCENT PEOPLE THROW THE FIRST STONE.”
Second supporter pointed out the coincidental timing between when the Golden Globe Award winner “came out on national TV and talked about her faith and how unpopular she is in Hollywood” and she was “cancelled for past “hate crimes” against Asians.
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Third fan revealed How funny it is when people attack Wahlberg for realizing he’s a “young racist idiot**” and deciding to turn his life around, adding that it’s good when people grow up.
BAFTA Award Winner Pleads Guilty to Felony Assault in Legal Battle
Rolling stone reported that Wahlberg’s troubles began in 1988 after he was convicted of assaulting two Vietnamese-American men while trying to steal several bottles of beer from them outside a convenience store. The actor, who was 16 at the time of the incident, first used a stick to knock out one man — Thanh Lam — before punching another man, Hoa “Johnny” Trinh.
Although he was charged with attempted murder and eventually pleaded guilty to felony assault, earning a two-year prison sentence, the father of four only served 45 days. It’s worth noting that Wahlberg’s conviction followed another charge of contempt of court, stemming from several incidents in which he chased and hurled racial slurs at Black school children two years earlier.
Per NBC News, he applied for clemency to have the case removed from his record, saying how “deeply sorry” he was for his actions and for “any lasting damage I may have caused the victim.” To further his cause, Wahlberg emphasized his philanthropy in the years following the attack as the main reason his record was expunged.
“I want people to remember my past so I can be an example of how life can be restored,” the nine-time Primetime Emmy Award winner wrote in 2014. Wahlberg has also publicly apologized several times for hate crimes over the years. year.
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