Actor Mark Wahlberg has revealed how he was required to shave his head every day for his role in the action thriller Flight Risk. The Hollywood star, 53, plays ‘pilot’ Dylan in the airplane-set thriller – leaving audiences shocked by hiding a completely bald head beneath the baseball cap his character initially wears.
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This isn’t the only surprise the film has in store, featuring a tense battle of wits between Marky Mark’s Dylan, a shifty fugitive (Topher Grace), and the Air Marshall (Michelle Dockery) tasked with getting him to trial. The plan hits a spot of turbulence when Dylan reveals himself to be a ruthless hitman who has been hired to kill the fugitive before he can testify.
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A promising plot twist – but we’re more distracted by what’s going on with the normally hirsute Father Stu and The Departed star’s hair. Many thought it to be a prosthetic bald cap – but Mark has revealed how he in fact shaved his head especially for the role.
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video. Up Next. Speaking to People, Mark spoke about how his Flight Risk look was achieved. ‘There was no bald cap. I shaved the middle and left the horseshoe around the sides. We just shaved it,’ he said.
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‘They would shave the top as close to the scalp as possible every day, obviously, because we didn’t have any stubble or anything. So I just hid it with a hat. ‘But the most priceless thing was seeing my wife’s face when I took my hat off after getting the hair cut for work that day,’ he laughed.
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