Mark Wahlberg has revealed he gets up at dawn every day to train for his new project The Fighter - even though it’s not set to start filming for another eight months.

The Departed star is set to play boxing legend Mickey ‘Irish’ Ward in the film and told MTV recently: “It will be a year, on October 13, that I have been training [for the role]. I have another six to eight months of training before we actually start shooting.”

“We’re running, we’re watching fights… I’ve got a full ring set up at my house.”

“I am up at four in the morning. We go to the gym at five when it opens. I’m jumping rope, hitting the speed bag, the double-end bag, the mitts, and we’re sparring a little bit.”