The 2023 SAG Awards show is catching heat for Mark Wahlberg’s role in the ceremony; he presenting a trophy to the predominantly Asian cast of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — 35 years after he was accused of hate crimes against Asians. In 1988, Mark was convicted for assaults he committed in Boston, when he was 16, toward two Vietnamese American men. Wahlberg hit Thanh Lam in the head with a stick while trying to steal alcohol and punched Johnny Trinh in the face. He said he was high at the time. He was charged as an adult with attempted murder and sentenced to two years on felony assault, but served only 45 days. In 2014, he applied for a pardon — a bid he dropped in 2016. But that wasn’t the only racist attack Wahlberg committed. In 1986, Wahlberg and his white friends started throwing rocks and shouting racial epithets at a group of mostly black fourth grade students on a field trip to the beach and chased them down the street. Wahlberg was not tried and convicted for this incident, but he was found guilty of violating the civil rights of his victims. At Sunday’s SAG Awards, Wahlberg presented the final award of the evening for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture to the mostly Asian cast of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” — including Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh and Vietnamese actor Ke Huy Quan.
