In a 2018 interview, Tom Brady said that he would want Mark Wahlberg to play him in a movie about his life, saying that he appreciated the Dorchester native for being “one of the ‘grind it out’ kind of guys.”
But in Wahlberg’s mind, he would be playing someone else central to the Patriots dynasty in the hypothetical Brady biopic.
In an interview with Variety, Wahlberg joked that he was probably a bit too old to be playing Brady at this point.
“I could play his uncle,” Wahlberg told Variety’s Mark Malkin.