Mark Wahlberg to star in buddy cop romance Partners
Mark Wahlberg apparently really likes playing cops; they’re right up there with “Soldiers” and “Cades Yeager” on his list of most-played film roles. To the actor’s credit, though, his police officers tend to have at least a few distinguishing features—maybe they’re brusque but loyal assholes, or intentional subversions of the cowboy cop ideal—that make them stand out. Now, New Line has signed Wahlberg up for his least likely police officer role yet: an LAPD detective who finds out his new partner/boss is, horror of horrors, a woman he slept with the night before they officially met on the job.