in the beginning

Donnie Wahlberg shared in the documentary that in the beginning stages of New Kids on The Block the members were put through the wringer.

“Anyone with a stitch of remorse would have admitted the truth in the beginning, but there doesn’t appear to be any of that in this monster. ... He wanted to be the big man in Atomwaffen.”

“I definitely had taken some tough beatings in the beginning,” Shumake said.

“When I see people going through it in the beginning, like they’ve just been unplugged in ‘The Matrix,’ you know they can’t avoid this pain.

But I won’t lie, in the beginning, it was extremely intimidating.