Mark Wahlberg remembers Penny Marshall's career-changing advice: 'This white rapper thing isn't working'

Mark Wahlberg remembers Penny Marshall's career-changing advice: 'This white rapper thing isn't working'

The late actress-director cast a young Wahlberg in one of his first movies, 1994's "Renaissance Man."Penny Marshall and Mark Wahlberg in 2000Credit: Bei/ShutterstockKey PointsMark Wahlberg is looking back on how late actor-director Penny Marshall, whom he encountered when he appeared in her 1994 Renaissance Man, affected his career.Wahlberg says Marshall told him he was destined to be an actor because he was already playing a rapper.She let Wahl…