LOS ANGELES?Mark Wahlberg plays boxer ?Irish? Mickey Ward in the coming film ?The Fighter.? Who did he study to come across as a convincing pugilist? Filipino boxing champ Manny Pacquiao.
?I would love for Manny to see the movie,? Mark said of the biopic drama about Mickey and his Rocky-like rise to the world light welterweight title in the mid-1980s. ?The Fighter,? directed by David O. Russell, co-stars Christian Bale as Dickie Eklund, who helped train his brother.
As part of his research for the role, Mark, a friend of Manny?s, observed Pacman whenever he was training in LA. ?I would go to the gym to study Manny all the time,? the actor said in an interview at the Ritz Carlton in Cancun, Mexico. ?Every
