Mark Wahlberg has reflected on his iconic 1992 photoshoot for Calvin Klein with Kate Moss, describing his behaviour on set as “not very worldly”.
Moss has previously spoken about how the iconic shoot led to a nervous breakdown, telling Vanity Fair: “I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn’t feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn’t like it. I couldn’t get out of bed for two weeks.”
Moss also said Wahlberg was “such a d***head” at the time and “wasn’t very nice”.
In a new interview with The Guardian, Wahlberg said: “I think I was probably a little rough around the edges. Kind of doing my thing. I wasn’t very… worldly, let’s say that. But I’ve seen her and said hello. I think we saw each other at a concert here and there, we said hi and exchanged pleasantries.”
Discussing Moss and Wahlberg’s working relationship in 2013, Calvin Klein said: “Oh, my god. Mark and Kate couldn’t stand each other.”
Elsewhere in his Guardian interview, Wahlberg spoke about his criminal past, including serving time for assaulting a Vietnamese shopkeeper in 1988 while high on the drug PCP and using racial slurs against him.
He said: “I made a lot of terrible mistakes and I paid for those mistakes dearly.”
Speaking about leaving the gang he was part of and turning his life around, he said: “I took it upon myself to own up to my mistakes and go against the grain and not be a part of the gang any more – to say that I was going to go and do my own thing. Which made it 10 times more difficult to walk from my home to the train station, to go to school, to go to work.”
Wahlberg can currently be seen in Spenser Confidential, out on Netflix now.
