Mark Wahlberg Should’ve Recused Himself to Avoid SAG Awkwardness, Says Jeff Yang

Mark Wahlberg might’ve foreseen the awkward second that unfolded dwell on the SAG Awards — courtesy of his ugly felony historical past with 2 Asian males — so says one author, who cringed upon seeing it.

We talked to Jeff Yang, an Asian-American WSJ columnist, who was one in all many who commented on the Wahlberg second Sunday — and he instructed us MW was merely the flawed man to current the forged of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” the ultimate statuette of the night time.

The motive … again when Mark was a youngster in Boston, he pled responsible to assaulting 2 Vietnamese immigrants as he and others shouted racial epithets. He was convicted and served 45 days behind bars.

In gentle of that horrible stain, JY says Mark ought to’ve had higher instinct and turned down the gig … particularly contemplating ‘EEAAO’ was thought-about a lock to win, and since it clearly would not look good onstage — which, in accordance to the overwhelming majority, it did not.

Jeff does say it is potential Mark merely did not know ‘Everywhere’ would win … and if he did, maybe he took the presenter job as an unstated olive department to the AAPI neighborhood.

While it is actually believable, Jeff tells us he really would not suppose it is possible — and that this was most likely a tone-deaf determination on everybody’s half … particularly as a result of, in Jeff’s thoughts, Mark hasn’t actually gone out of his means to appropriate the brutal flawed from his teen years.

Worth noting … he has issued apologies, together with again in 2014, when he unsuccessfully tried to get pardon.