He read the script and took the part. You may not be able to accept the fact that he’s a far left guy, but he is.
It’s not like I hero worship Mark Whalberg. I just like that particular movie. Stallone publically came out against assault weapons a few months ago- about the same time Bullet to the Head came out. I boycotted the movie and lost a lot of respect for Stallone the raging hypocrite because of his comments. I haven’t seen that Whalberg has made similar comments. If you showed me that he had, I would have nothing good to say about him either. I just haven’t seen it.