by Mike SpohrBuzzFeedBuzzFeed Staffat/oIA9q" target="_blank">movie facts, and more. 1. Mark Wahlberg was a troubled teenager with a violent past. In 1986, Wahlberg was accused of hurling rocks and racial epithets at Black school children, and two years later, a 16-year-old Wahlberg brutally attacked a Vietnamese man named Thanh Lam, hitting him with a stick until he was unconscious, all while shouting racial epithets. He also punched another Vietnamese man in the face. He served 45 days of a two-year sentence, all while maintaining that the crimes were not racially motivated.