How Donnie Wahlberg’s True Crime Doc Connects to Brother Mark’s Movies

Donnie Wahlberg Explained how season 6 of Very scary people will connect with his brother Mark WahlbergHollywood career of.

“This season is interesting because there’s a wide range of very scary people that we’re covering,” Dhoni, 55, exclusively said Us Weekly on Tuesday, December 10. “We cover the guys that my brother Mark’s film Pain and gain was based on It certainly didn’t keep me up at night, but it was pretty bad.”

discovery investigations Very scary peopleHosted and directed by Donnie, it’s a docu-series that explores “the twisted crimes committed by some of the most despicable people in America,” according to the show’s official description.

The new season will include an episode about the activities of the Sun Jim gang in the nineties, which will tell the true story behind the events in which Mark’s 2013 black comedy Pain and gain loosely based. Pain and gain costarred Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Anthony Mackie.

“The movie was presented, I think, at least to the public as a bit of a comedy, like a silly caper, but these guys were pretty serious and did some terrible things,” Donnie said. us. “It was a real surprise for me. Of course, I watch all of my brother and Mark’s movies and I support each other. Contrary to popular belief, we are very supportive of each other. I just had no idea how intense this story really was.”

Donnie explained it Very scary people Season 6 will also cover subjects such as the infamous Matusiwicz family, whose history he called “very scary in a completely different way than typical history Very scary people story.”

He also mentioned another 1990s crime kingpin Clarence “Preacher” Hatley would be the focus of a Season 6 episode.

“Growing up in Boston, it was close enough to New York that we always heard stories about things going on in New York and he was such a mythical figure to us,” Donnie explained to us. “And then to know that (singer) Bobby BrownHe is a friend and also someone I have looked up to all my life, he has a small part in this story, it was really fascinating to deal with him and relate to him.”

For context: Brown, 55, was kidnapped in Harlem, New York, by Hatley and his crew in 1993.

“To ask him to be a part of the show, which is a bit of a spoiler, but to be a part of one of our episodes is very, very cool,” Donny concluded.

Season 6 of Very scary people Premieres Sunday, December 15, on Investigation Discovery.

Reporting by Christina Garibaldi