Mel Gibson, Mark Wahlberg, Owen Wilder Vaccaro and Will Ferrell star in a scene from the movie
Daddy’s Home 2. Catholic actors Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson are to star in a new film about an American priest, which has just begun filming.
In Stu, Wahlberg will star as Fr Stuart Long, a onetime boxer who became a priest and died in 2014, while Gibson will play his father.
Variety, a show business magazine, reported Wahlberg has added a lot of weight to play the role.
It’s not the first time Wahlberg and Gibson have appeared together on screen.
In the 2017 comedy Daddy’s Home 2, Wahlberg reprised his role as Dusty from the original, and Gibson played his father – the same relationship to be depicted in Stu.
Gibson’s girlfriend Rosalind Ross, with whom he has a 4-year-old son, wrote the script – she’s written two other films in the past decade – and is directing her first feature film.
Wahlberg is listed as one of the producers of the movie, which has no release date set.