Mark Wahlberg’s 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” on stage at the 2023 Screen Actors Guild awards Sunday.Â
Images showed Wahlberg presenting Ke Huy Quan with the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture award for the film, sowing the seeds of the outrage that looked back to the actor’s criminal past.
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.
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Wahlberg punched Trinh in the eye and knocked out the other with a wooden stick.Â
Investigators at the time said Wahlberg used the g-word racial slur against East Asians and verbally mocked their eye shape, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail.
Mark Wahlberg speaks onstage during the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on February 26, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Thirty-five years later, the internet wasn’t so quick to forget.Â
Bonnie Stiernberg, managing editor of Inside Hook, 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.”
Some pointed out that Will Smith was not given the opportunity to present awards while Wahlberg was.
Matt Samet, an attorney from California, tweeted, “REALLY interesting that Will Smith wasn’t invited to present Best Actress while Mark Wahlberg is presenting the ensemble award to a film with a predominantly Asian cast when he punched and barely blinded a Vietnamese man….”
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(L-R) Mark Wahlberg presents Ke Huy Quan with the Outstanding…
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