Boogie Nights takes place in the 1970s and follows Wahlberg's Eddie, a teenage nightclub dishwasher, after he is discovered by filmmaker Jack Horner ( Burt Reynolds) and becomes a wildly successful porn star named Dirk Diggler.

However, he’s still kicking himself over one major misstep, an admission he made during a recent Esquire interview with Paul Thomas Anderson, whose 1997 film “Boogie Nights” took Hollywood by storm. At the time,

At the time, the Oscar winner had to turn down the leading role as he was busy leading James Cameron’s ‘Titanic.’