Mark Wahlberg’s mom was ‘convinced’ George Clooney was ‘hitting on her’ on movie set: ‘He wants to go out with me’
George Clooney could’ve been Mark Wahlberg’s stepfather, according to the “Lovely Bones” star’s mother.
During an interview with Variety published Wednesday, Wahlberg, 53, revealed his mom was smitten with Clooney after meeting the hunky actor on the set of “The Perfect Storm” in 1999.
“My mom [Alma Wahlberg] came to the set and met George and got a picture, and she had it on her wall,” he recalled. “I think she liked that picture more than she liked the picture of her own kids.”
However, Mark said his mother thought the feelings between her and Clooney, 63, were mutual.
“[She was like,] ‘Oh, he likes me a lot. He loves me a lot. He told me he wants to go out with me. I told him I couldn’t,'” he mimicked in his mom’s voice.
“But yeah, she was convinced that he was, like, hitting on her. I said, ‘I don’t know about that, Mom.’”
Although the “Departed” star didn’t fully believe his mom’s recollection of things, he still gave her the green light to pursue his co-star.
“I said, ‘Well, f—k it, have a baby with him!” he joked. “I want a little brother.”
“‘George can be my stepfather. It’s all good,’” he added.
However, the two never got together and Clooney went on to marry his now-wife, Amal Clooney, in 2014. It’s unclear if Alma ever remarried following her 1982 divorce from Mark’s father, Donald.
Despite shooting the movie over 20 years ago, Mark said he still vividly remembers working with Clooney and director Wolfgang Petersen.
“It was such an amazing experience,” he said of the project, which was inspired by Sebastian Junger’s non-fiction novel of the same name.
Elsewhere in the interview, the Oscar nominee revealed his dad visited him on set for the very first time while filming the “Departed,” which came out in 2006.
“He came the day I was shooting with Jack Nicholson. He wanted to see Jack,” Mark recalled.
“My dad loved the cinema. He was not impressed with any of my other work until I started acting and then even with ‘The Departed’ he said, ‘Now you can call yourself an actor. I’m not impressed with the paycheck, I’m impressed with the performance.'”
Mark is the youngest of Donald and Alma’s nine children. While the family patriarch died in 2008, his mother passed in 2021.
“My angel. Rest in peace,” Mark wrote alongside a photo of his mother on Instagram at the time.
