Mark Wahlberg offers to play part of Scottish brother rowing Pacific in future film

The Scotsman

Hollywood star Mark Wahlberg has thrown his support behind three British brothers attempting a world-record-breaking row across the Pacific Ocean.  The movie icon says he is "inspired" by the Scottish trio - and has offered to play one of them in a film.  In a surprise video call with Ewan, Jamie, and Lachlan Maclean, Wahlberg praised their mission to row 9,000 miles non-stop and unsupported from Lima, Peru, to Sydney, Australia, raising funds for clean water projects in Madagascar.  “I’m so inspired by you guys,” Wahlberg told the brothers, who are now 54 days into their row. “You’re badasses doing something no one else would even think of.

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00:00what's up guys well hey mike how you doing guys this out for a little stroll yeah just a little

00:09row yeah small one 120 days or so absolutely incredible man i talk about inspiring i mean

00:17it's just like a whole other level can you just tell me a little bit more about what you guys are

00:23doing i know it's a wonderful cause but i'd love to hear from you guys about what you're doing and

00:28see how we can help you guys in your journey oh man of course yeah yeah so uh we're three brothers

00:33from scotland uh probably got that uh we rode across the atlantic a couple years ago i think

00:40to everyone's surprise we started from absolutely no experience like we'd never rode before and

00:45within a year we we managed to row across the atlantic and raise like a quite a big chunk of

00:51money for green water projects um and broke a couple world records so we broke the record for

00:57the fastest crossing of the atlantic for a trio and then i think yeah we kind of just got the

01:01bug for it and um we're now this is probably the most surreal situation i've ever been in we're in

01:06the middle of the pacific chatting to mark warburg we're operating on very little sleep um so we're

01:14we're all kind of like is this a hallucination well i tell you you know for me uh i couldn't be more

01:21inspired by what you guys are doing the the grit the determination the resiliency it's absolutely

01:27amazing how are you guys are you guys you brought all your own food supplies and everything are you

01:32fishing are you guys cooking so yeah exactly we've we've i mean we're doing it so it's non-stop so we've

01:38we have to take everything with us so we've got all of our food with us um the fishing line is

01:43actually about three feet to my right so we're fishing along the way as well we've caught

01:48some mahi mahi we've not landed a tuna yet we had a big tuna on the line um well a couple times but

01:55it's got off we've got same with a marlin we had a big marlin but yeah and then food wise it's it's

02:01freeze-dried food so it's like it's like spaceman food um and we we actually jamie the one that's

02:08rowing uh he's he's already keen cook so we actually what's up jamie what's up man let's see ya

02:15led by him we actually made all of our food ourselves so if we like made it in a school

02:21kitchen and then freeze-dried the food just brought it with us how has weather fared for you guys have

02:25you guys had any good good weather downwind are you guys getting uh tailwind at all any point or

02:32oh well we've had to be honest it's been pretty tough the first um i mean we're we're approaching

02:37the halfway mark so we're we're maybe like um 600 miles from the halfway point and up until now we've

02:45had like 95 percent of the weather has been coming onto the side of the boat uh which means you get

02:51like big waves coming over uh which it's just like really tough on the body you get like i don't know

02:56if you can see my hand but it's kind of blisters oh i can only imagine it all degrades pretty quick

03:02when you've got salt uh and uh it's all the contact points so your feet and your hands and your bum

03:07they'll you need to like really stay on top of it yeah yeah how much fresh water do you guys have

03:12so we produce it so we've got solar panels then we've got a disillinator so we we produce water as

03:17we go honestly thank you so much for making the time it's like we're so likewise i look forward to

03:22meeting you guys in person when you get to dry land after it's all over man we get a bite to eat

03:27and i know at least you know the one caveat you guys probably getting a lot more sunshine than you

03:31used to at home oh yeah in scotland you don't get much to say we're getting like a lifetime's worth

03:3850 out of here well i've been fortunate enough to visit a couple of times and uh it's beautiful

03:43beautiful country so you guys are making uh your homeland proud

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