Even as a famously devout Catholic, Mark Wahlberg had never been pitched a faith-based feature until “Father Stu,” a study of a wild and crazy guy who found his calling late in life as a Roman Catholic priest.
It was a priest in Wahlberg’s Beverly Hills parish who over dinner suggested this real-life story as a movie.
“I haven’t really been pitched anything religious that I can remember,” Wahlberg, 50, said last week in Boston before the film’s benefit premiere for his Youth Foundation. “But this really resonated with me.”
