Mark Wahlberg is pleased with the films he is showing these day. The versatile actor is in his family-friendly period (The Household Plan, Uncharted), one thing he continues with Arthur the King, as he embraces getting older and the roles that include it.

“, I do get pleasure from doing issues that the entire whole household can see. Look, I am 52 years outdated now. I am a dad of 4. I’ve acquired a child in school,” he tells Yahoo Leisure. (Wahlberg and his spouse, Rhea Durham, are the mother and father of Ella, 20, Michael, 17, Brendan, 15 and Grace, 14.) “I like taking part in age-appropriate roles. I believe lots of people do not embrace that and audiences are like — this does not appear actual.”

One factor Wahlberg believes audiences wish to see is “the man and the gal being in the identical age bracket,” which has been the case in a number of of his latest tasks. “There’s many various issues that I believe audiences frown upon and I wish to do issues which are plausible and sensible,” he says.

That does not imply Wahlberg’s Boogie Nights days are essentially behind him — “Hear, if the suitable script comes, I do not rule something out,” he says. However for now he needs to make “significant” tasks like Arthur the King, wherein he stars and produces.

Within the movie, Wahlberg performs professional journey racer Michael Mild. The film is predicated on the true story of Mikael Lindnord‘s journey by Ecuador through the 2014 Journey Racing World Championship when a stray canine joined the four-person journey workforce. On the finish of the race, Lindnord had to decide on between his lifelong dream or saving the canine (who he named Arthur).

“[Mikael’s] in all probability probably the most egocentric — and athletes must be egocentric as a way to achieve success — he is a really egocentric man who did probably the most selfless issues,” Wahlberg explains of why the story spoke to him. “And when he was so shut and will actually attain out and contact the factor that all the time meant essentially the most to him, he was keen to sacrifice that to save lots of Arthur, [changing the] trajectory of his life ceaselessly.”

Wahlberg says the coaching he underwent for the function was completely different than in previous tasks.

“Look, it isn’t any sort of bodybuilding contest on the market. It is who can undergo essentially the most and who can have essentially the most psychological fortitude and toughness,” he says, noting how he skilled like he was actually going to do the days-long journey race. “Once I was doing it, it felt like I might truly be the half till day one after I tore my meniscus and all that went out the window.”

One other perk of being 52.

Wahlberg says that everybody was nervous and nervous that manufacturing was going to close down due to the damage.

“Mikael simply had a giant smile on his face,” he recollects, “like now you possibly can truly get a style of what it is prefer to undergo on the market as a result of there isn’t any aid. … The blokes and the gals who can take essentially the most are normally those who win.”

Arthur the King opens in theaters on Friday, March 15.