Over the last few days I’ve done press for 6 movies, and over the next week or so I’ll be posting a ton of interviews. But while it’ll take me some time to transcribe entire conversations, I wanted to post some of the highlights today. Up now… Mark Wahlberg.

During the press conference for “We Own the Night,” Mark was asked a lot of questions on various upcoming projects that he may be attached to like “G.I. Joe,” “The Brazilian Project” and “Fighter.” But he also spoke about the now filming M. Night movie “The Happening.”

So you can either read part of the interview below or you can download the MP3 of the entire press conference by clicking here. As always, it’s an MP3. You can expect a full transcript soon, but for now enjoy the highlights…

QUESTION: ARE YOU STILL UP FOR THE ROLE OF DUKE IN 'G.I. JOE?'

Mark Wahlberg: Oh, I have no idea.  Lorenzo was talking about it months back, when we were promoting 'Shooter,' but I haven't seen a script.

QUESTION: HAS HE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH YOU OVER THE SUMMER?

Mark Wahlberg: No.  No.  The idea of it seems pretty out there, they haven't told me tonally what they're going for, so we'll see.  Training to do 'The Fighter' and everything is coming after.

QUESTION: HOW'S THE TRAINING GOING FOR 'FIGHTER?'

Mark Wahlberg: It's going good.  A lot of early mornings.  I've been training since - I started training last October, so I've been training for almost a year now.  And still got some training ahead of me.

QUESTION: HOW RIGOROUS IS IT?  WHAT KIND OF TRAINING?

Mark Wahlberg: Boxing training, two hours a day.  Mickey Ward is one of my favorite fighters of all time, and I think there have been some great boxing movies made, but I don't think anybody's ever really looked the part of a champion, and I want to do him justice.

QUESTION: WHAT'S THE SHOOTING SCHEDULE?  WHEN DO YOU START?

WAHLBERG: You know, with all the strike talk and everything, nobody really knows.  Just kind of be prepared when the day comes, and hope the day comes.  You never know, with everything that's going on.

QUESTION: WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO REALLY DO JUSTICE TO THE REAL MICKEY WARD?

Mark Wahlberg: I'm gonna do the same thing like I did in 'Invincible,' I'm gonna really get in there and make it real.  The way fights are covered now, if you watch, there's a great middleweight fight tonight that I can't wait to watch, when you see the way they can cover these fights, you can't do the big looping punches and the big reactions, you gotta go in there and you gotta take a couple shots.

QUESTION: HAVE YOU CHOREOGRAPHED THE WHOLE THING, OR WILL YOU MIX IT UP A BIT?

Mark Wahlberg: Uh, we're gonna go in there and mix it up.  Certainly, he has some very historical fights and rounds on him, so there are things that we'll have to duplicate, and certainly anything that me and Brad [Pitt] do training-wise, they had - the brothers sparred together because they couldn't afford sparring partners and stuff like that, so yeah, we're gonna have to get in there and make it real.

QUESTION: HOW ARE THINGS GOING WITH 'THE HAPPENING?'

Mark Wahlberg: It's happening.  It's happening.  No, I love working with Night, I've never seen a filmmaker work so smoothly.  And so prepared.  First day, we had a scene that was probably five pages long, and I figured, well we'll probably do this for a good three or four days, and we were done by lunch.  And I was like whoa.  Okay.  So I'm very glad that I never tried directing myself until I worked with Night.  I think of all the guys that I've worked with, I think his is a style that I would really try to emulate.

QUESTION: CAN YOU TALK ABOUT 'THE HAPPENING' AT ALL?

Mark Wahlberg: I'll just tell you the ending [laughs].  No, I play a science teacher, definitely a part that people will be extremely surprised that I decided to play.  He's constantly reminding me of how I need to walk.  No, that looks too tough, that looks too angry.  You're a science teacher, you know.  But I love it.  It's really about the characters and their relationships, and there's this crazy thing that's happening.  So I'm thrilled, we only have a week left.  Probably one of the biggest movies I've been a part of, yet we're only shooting forty-four days.  And the longest day has been a twelve-hour day, and the short days have been like eight, nine hours.  And he gave away yesterday, for instance, that every Friday he gives away a trip for seven days in the Greek islands, to a crew member, a guy I think from the audio department won, and the week before somebody got a seven day trip somewhere else in the Caribbean, I'm like what's going on, man?  It's a special experience.  And I do whatever he wants me to do.  Hopefully the end result will be satisfying.  He's thrilled, I have a very good feeling about it.

QUESTION: DID YOU GO BACK TO SCHOOL TO STUDY HOW TO BE A TEACHER?

Mark Wahlberg: Science was the only subject that I didn't take while taking my GED exam, so first thing I did when I got to Philly was I went to the Ben Franklin Institute, trying to do as much as possible.  But there's very little stuff in the class.  The class and stuff is really about showing his relationship and his connection to students.  He's not the most adult teacher.  His wife wants him to be more adult, she wants to be more like a kid, and he connects with his kids and he's great with his kids.  It was a fun experience.

QUESTION: WHAT'S GOING ON WITH 'THE BRAZILIAN JOB?'

Mark Wahlberg: I don't know what's happening with 'The Brazilian Job,' you know.  They keep talking about it, we'll see.  We want to make it if we can make it better than the first one.  And that goes for any other sequel that they're talking about.  That or 'The Departed' or anything else.  You don't want to just do it, there are plenty of other ways to make a paycheck.  I want to do that some justice if possible.