{"id":584995,"date":"2026-07-14T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/584995\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:37:15","slug":"mark-wahlberg-savours-penangs-charm-as-malaysians-floored-by-stars-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/584995\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Wahlberg savours Penang\u2019s charm as Malaysians floored by star\u2019s humility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mark Wahlberg shed the aura of a Hollywood star when he savoured street food and mingled with locals in Penang while filming Netflix\u2019s The Big Fix. His trip delighted Malaysians and highlighted the country\u2019s growing appeal to global productions.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Videos of Wahlberg, who played a former Boston police detective in Spenser Confidential, filming around the Malaysian state went viral on social media over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Some clips showed the 55-year-old walking through a market, waving to onlookers and visiting a mamak outlet, one of the country\u2019s ubiquitous Indian Muslim food stalls.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fans were also impressed with the actor\u2019s down-to-earth presence.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cHe is sitting at the mamak stall that casually? Malaysians can claim him already,\u201d a social media user said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Others struggled to believe that an A-list actor had turned up so casually in George Town, Penang\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Wahlberg shed the aura of a Hollywood star when he savoured street food and mingled with locals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[248469,199990,248474,434,248475,248470,18,117,248472,149562,248471,19,17,32503,107206,248476,248473,20916,248477,127],"class_list":["post-584995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-a-rajendran","tag-baltasar-kormakur","tag-batu-kawan-stadium","tag-celebrities","tag-chin-han","tag-city-stadium","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-finas","tag-george-town","tag-hans-isaac","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-langkawi","tag-lorong-kulit","tag-macallum-field","tag-mark-wahlberg","tag-merdeka","tag-netflix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116917898448835681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}