Mark Wahlberg ‘would love' to play this role in Tom Brady movie

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Mark Wahlberg already knows who he'd want to play in the inevitable Tom Brady biopic, and it isn't who you'd expect.

Despite Brady choosing Wahlberg as the actor he'd want to play as him in a movie, the Dorchester, Mass. native would rather a role as Brady's longtime New England Patriots head coach.

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"I could play Bill Belichick," Wahlberg told Variety's Marc Malkin. "I would love to play Bill Belichick.

"I'm working on the press conferences as we speak. The next five interviews that I do, I'm going to be Bill Belichick. 'On to Cincinnati,' a yes or no answer, and I'm gonna annoy a lot of people."

We're no casting directors, but that doesn't seem like the greatest match. Belichick turns 70 in April and Wahlberg is closer to Brady's age at 50 years old.

Regardless, former Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman appears to be on board with the idea.

"Have your people call my people @markwahlberg," he wrote on Twitter.

If Brady and Wahlberg do team up for a biopic, it wouldn't be their first time collaborating on a film. The duo famously appeared in a scene from the movie "Ted 2."

As for Brady snubbing New England in his official retirement announcement, Wahlberg isn't sweating it.

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“He’ll always be a Patriot,” Wahlberg told Malkin. “I don’t think one season, one championship, or two seasons in Tampa is going to take away from the legacy and his mark that he put on New England and in the NFL as a whole. So he’ll always be a Patriot.”

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