After host Jimmy Fallon showed off two photographs of Wahlberg’s previous three-week transformation for the film, the Ted star said that the process was “fun for about an hour.” “Unfortunately, I had to consume, for two weeks, 7,000 calories, and then for another two weeks, 11,000 calories,” he said.
I was trying to get this movie made for six years, we only had 30 days to shoot it, and so I wanted to really make it happen,” he said.