Mark Wahlberg's 1988 hate crime conviction resurfaced on social media after he presented the mostly Asian 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' cast with a SAG award.
past came back to haunt him after a social media firestorm raged over him presenting an award to the Asian cast of"Everything Everywhere All At Once" onstage at the 2023 Screen Actors Guild awards Sunday.
The 51-year-old star was convicted of assaulting Vietnamese-American shopkeeper Johnny Trinh, along with another Vietnamese-American man, in 1988 when he was 16.Wahlberg punched Trinh in the eye and knocked out the other with a wooden stick. Mark Wahlberg speaks onstage during the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on Feb. 26, 2023, in Los Angeles.Bonnie Stiernberg, managing editor of InsideHook, tweeted of Wahlberg's presence,"I gotta say, having Mark Wahlberg, who literally went to jail as a teen for committing a hate crime against a Vietnamese man, present an award to the cast of Everything Everywhere All At Once was certainly a choice.
Others defended Wahlberg, however, noting how he has changed since the incident took place and has since apologized for the crime.Actor Mark Wahlberg offered to fly his victim out so that he could apologize to him in person, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail.
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