The Lovely Bones had Mark Wahlberg in tears

Published: 4:11PM Wednesday December 23, 2009 Source: BANG Showbiz

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Mark Wahlberg kept bursting into tears off-set while making The Lovely Bones.

The actor found the experience of shooting the film - about a murdered girl looking down on her family in limbo - so emotional that it also affected his home life.

Wahlberg is "still learning to juggle" the emotions of his role as Jack Salmon, the father of the murdered girl.

The soon to be father-of-four said: "I would just grab my daughter and hold her, and I would start crying.

"She'd be like, 'Daddy, what's wrong?' She just wanted to play.

"I would try to talk to her about taking care of herself and not talking to strangers.

"She was three at the time. But, thankfully, I had another movie to go to that helped me get out of that."

Wahlberg, 38, also praised his co-star Rachel Weisz for being so in control of her feelings, saying she has an ability to "just snap into it and have these floods of emotion coming out and then turn it all off".

Weisz, 39, plays down the praise, however, saying she is just doing her job.

She is quoted by website MoviesOnline as saying: "You imagine beautiful things and you imagine ugly things. That's my job.

"I just don't think that something is too dark or problematic to go to. I don't know why, but I just don't think that way. I've learned to come out of it.

"I'm a mother in real life, so I can't go home to my kid in a state of despair and tears. You have to learn to juggle that. Bad things happen in stories."

Weisz's has son Henry, three, with her film director fiance Darren Aronofsky.

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