"Ben was adamant about that," Wahlberg said. Wahlberg and Foster spent a lot of time hanging out together so their on-screen chemistry would be real. And you know, if you can't get it right the second time around, you have no business making films!" "Will it translate? And I was concerned, is he going to want to refer back to the original film all the time, or will he let me do my own thing? But then I learned he was really smart, and really tough, and all his direction was spot on. "At first, I was also concerned about Balt directing, that there might be a language issue," Wahlberg told The Playlist. Kormákur originally brought the idea to remake his Icelandic heist film " Reykjavik-Rotterdam" to Wahlberg's agents for him to star as the lead character Chris and produce - and Wahlberg thought an American version would only work with the right cast. " Baltasar is an actor first, so his choices were really smart." "We were so lucky to get the cast we got," Wahlberg said, rattling off his co-stars names: Kate Beckinsale as his wife, Ben Foster as his best friend, Giovanni Ribisi as the antagonist. Whenever Mark Wahlberg is a producer on a film he's starring in, he sits down with the director and the casting director (usually Sheila Jaffe) and comes up with a wish list of who he'd like to be in the cast - " Contraband" is the first time he got "our first choice for most of the parts in the film."
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