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A legendary rapper, actor and producer from the Bay State will be working in Shrewsbury in October.<\/p>\n
Mark Wahlberg will film scenes for his upcoming movie, Weekend Warriors, near Grafton Street in the Central Massachusetts town on Oct. 8, according to Mark Fitzgerald, a location manager who spoke on behalf of Apple Studios.<\/p>\n
Fitzgerald told the town\u2019s select board about Wahlberg\u2019s new movie during its Sept. 23 meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n The select board approved closing the area near 708 Grafton St. from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Oct. 8 for the filming.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a great story,\u201d Fitzgerald said to the board. \u201cMark plays a long-haul trucker whose son has autism, and they do a bunch of road trips to bond. They go to all the NBA arenas.\u201d<\/p>\n The film is based on a German movie called Weekend Rebels, which tells a similar story, but revolves around soccer instead of basketball, according to Weekend Warrior\u2019s IMDb<\/a> page.<\/p>\n Born in Dorchester, Wahlberg is known for his music career as the leader of the hip-hop group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. Songs by the group include \u201cWildside\u201d and \u201cGood Vibrations.\u201d Wahlberg also has a renowned acting career, starring in films such as The Departed, Planet of the Apes and Ted.<\/p>\n Wahlberg is also a co-owner of Wahlburgers, along with his brothers, Paul and Donnie.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.masslive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A legendary rapper, actor and producer from the Bay State will be working in Shrewsbury in October. Mark Wahlberg will film scenes for his upcoming movie, Weekend Warriors, near Grafton Street in the Central Massachusetts town on Oct. 8, according to Mark Fitzgerald, a location manager who spoke on behalf of Apple Studios. Fitzgerald told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}