In a recent interview with Total Film.com , Mark Wahlberg comes clean stating his upcoming film Max Payne is his "favorite role so far". "I was lucky to get through it, but it made me stronger and, I hope, wiser. I had a lot of demons to fight. Maybe that's why this character is my favorite role so far," Wahlberg stated. "There's a definite theme of Max fighting the devils inside. There's a lot of action in this movie, but there's also plenty of emotion and psychology. It goes pretty deep."

Deep, but not dirty, explained Wahlberg, who said action can be done without buckets of blood or swearing or sex. He also wants "as many people to see [the film] as possible".

"John [Moore - director] let me make the character much more than a one-note action tough guy," he added.

"Sure, I raise my voice, get in people's faces... But I ramp up the humour, too. He's like a version of my character in The Departed - sly and cynical but also very funny. That's the kind of thing people like to see me doing."

Max Payne's current release date is October 17th 2008