Webber’s mother, Cheri Lynn Honkala, found it nearly impossible to land a job. Born in Minneapolis, Webber and his mom moved to Philadelphia when he was 10 and, almost immediately, encountered difficult times. Webber could certainly relate to his character’s struggles to stay afloat financially.
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I think this movie plays in that world and asks the audience to do their own moral inventory about how far they’d go and what they are capable of.” Or playing the lottery and hoping to hit the big one. For some, that translates into working jobs they don’t like. “Most people have to (worry) about the lengths they’ll go to provide for their families. “The reality of the world today is that the majority of us are living paycheck to paycheck. “It’s the main hook of the film,” says Webber. Elliott might be tasked with crazy challenges but he’s a stand-in for wage slaves around the world who are forced to work long hours to make ends meet. The socially relevant message at the center of “13 Sins” also captured Webber’s imagination. So it was fun playing with that, plugging myself into a certain level of panic and fear.” “The situations that I find myself in lend the movie a sense of urgency and energy. I was doing that in this big genre film with a pulsing beat to it, where the stakes keep getting higher and higher. “My approach always is to be as truthful as possible and to convey as an authentic portrayal of a character as possible,” says Webber. But soon he’s asked to commit arson, mouth off to cops and drag a corpse through the streets. Elliott is ordered to kill a fly and make a child cry. Then, out of the blue, Elliot receives a phone call from a stranger who promises to make him a millionaire if he agrees to 13 challenges. Not only is he drowning in debt but his girlfriend (Rutina Wesley) is pregnant and he’s responsible for the care of his mentally challenged brother (Devon Graye) and elderly father (Tom Bower). In “13 Sins,” a remake of a 2006 Thai thriller “13: Game of Death,” Webber plays Elliot Brindle, a nice guy who’s fired from his job at the worst possible time of his life. And I was a big fan of Daniel as a director so this one had all the right elements for me to go out and fight for it.” “I knew with all of the crazy situations I had to go through that it would be a fun movie to make. “To be in every single frame of the movie, and to take an action thriller on my back, was so exciting,” says Webber, 33. Now playing in Philadelphia and available on VOD, the latest thriller from “Last Exorcist” director Daniel Stamm gives Webber his first starring role in a studio movie since 2000’s “Snow Day.” Not surprisingly, the always-busy Webber will pop up in four independent features in 2014, including “Laggies,” a comedy co-starring Keira Knightley “Uncanny,” a sci-fi film about the world’s first perfect artificial intelligence “Jessabelle,” a supernatural thriller and “Happy Christmas,” a dramedy co-starring Anna Kendrick and “Girls” star Lena Dunham.įirst up, Webber toplines “13 Sins,” an action movie unlike anything he’s done before. Webber hasn’t portrayed the Man of Steel just yet, but since making his film debut in Eugene Martin’s “Edge City” in 1992, he’s worked steadily in movies, carving out a reputation as a respected indie actor. “I thought, ‘I want to do this so I’ll be rich and famous and people will like me and I won’t be judged for being poor.’ ” “It was, like, ‘Oh my God! Superman!’ At first I wanted to be Superman but then I found out that Superman was played by an actor and that was even more exciting. “I didn’t get to see a lot of movies, so seeing `Superman’ was pure escapism for me,” he says. Watching the movie starring Christopher Reeve was such an overwhelmingly magical experience for the youngster, who was then homeless, that he began trying to figure out a way to make it last a little longer. He was 10 years old and discovering “Superman” for the first time. Philadelphia’s Mark Webber will never forget the moment he decided to become an actor.
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