Mark Wahlberg apologized to “Flight Risk ”cast for being 'locked into' villain part, sticking to himself on set

Mark Wahlberg says he wasn't his best self on the set of his latest movie.

The Ted star was so focused on his villainous performance in the new film Flight Risk that he fears he alienated his costars. "I was locked into the part the whole time," Wahlberg recently told PEOPLE. "I apologized at the end because I wasn't very engaging off camera or outside of shooting, but I was just in [that] head space."

In the film, Wahlberg plays a mysterious pilot tasked with transporting a key government informant (Topher Grace) alongside a U.S. Marshal (Michelle Dockery). However, Flight Risk quickly reveals that Wahlberg's character isn't exactly who he says he is, which results in his passengers forcibly removing him from the cockpit.

"I was like the guy who was like constantly picking at them, poking them and prodding them, you know, from the back of the plane the whole entire time," he said.

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Wahlberg noted that he didn't really socialize with anyone else on set during production. "If we weren't shooting, I was like either off in the corner by myself, or I just would kind of go back to my little dressing room and just sit there," he said. However, his isolation didn't last long: "We only had 22 days of shooting. So it wasn't four months, five months of this. We shot it very quickly."

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The Fear star relished the opportunity to play a bad guy again, expressing admiration for antagonistic performances like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, Robert De Niro in Cape Fear, and John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire. "Those are the kind of characters that I always loved and gravitated towards, and I hadn't done it in such a long time," he said. "I don't know, I just kept all these ideas popping into my head about how I would play that particular role."

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Flight Risk is Mel Gibson's first directorial project since 2016's Hacksaw Ridge, and marks Wahlberg's first collaboration with the Braveheart filmmaker behind the camera. The two actors starred together in Daddy's Home 2 and Father Stu.

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Wahlberg reflected on crafting his character's unusual half-bald hairdo last year. "There was no bald cap," he told PEOPLE. "I shaved the middle and left the horseshoe around the sides. We just shaved it. They would shave the top as close to the scalp as possible every day, obviously, because we didn't have any stubble or anything. So I just hid it with a hat. But the most priceless thing was seeing my wife's face when I took my hat off after getting the hair cut for work that day."

Flight Risk is playing now in theaters.

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