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# Do You Need a Reason To Look at this Old Photo of Marky Mark and Leo?
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/do-you-need-a-reason-to-look-at-this-old-photo-of-marky-mark-and-leo-04-2020/
- Published: 2020-04-23T16:00:47.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-19T19:12:43.000Z
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- Author: Heather
- Tags: *Flashback*, classic photos, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:09

Basketball Diaries, in which they co-starred, is one of the movies that kick-started Mark Wahlberg's career as an actor -- so, where he really tried to renovate himself from violent douchecanoe into a functional human being. (We were not that many years removed here from him breaking his neighbor's jaw in 1992, and less than a decade from some of the things [in the "Hate Crimes" section of his Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%5FWahlberg?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io#Career).) Marky Mark looks ridiculous here, like he is about to throw a keg party at his parents' farm in the wilds of Alberta (a look with which I am familiar; thanks, high school!), but I'm not even that interested in him; it's more interesting to me to look at this and know what a huge international star Leo would become. At the risk of cracking open a Twitter argument that was pretty annoying, [Slate ran a piece about whether Leo was a movie star before ](https://slate.com/culture/2020/02/was-leonardo-dicaprio-already-a-star-when-titanic-came-out-in-1997.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)*Titanic,* and people were TERRIBLY indignant about the idea that he might not have been, given that he had been in movies. But being in movies, and being A Movie Star, are not quite the same thing. I think... granted, I don't have a great working Leo knowledge because I was never a particular fan of his. But potentially, you could argue that Leo was at the "well-known actor" phase in the early-to-mid '90s, started winning over teen girls after *Romeo + Juliet* in 1996, but didn't become a full-on international First Name Only heartthrob sensation until *Titanic*. Anyway, I look back at this squirrelly kid in his barely fitting suit, and I think, "Damn, you have a WILD ride ahead of you. Don't take fashion advice from Marky Mark."

###### \[Photo: Getty\]