Mickey Rourke: Actors Suck

Mickey Rourke, who is promoting 'Iron Man 2,' gives an outspoken interview in this weekend's Parade magazine. Here are some excerpts:

On independent films:
"I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one. Sometimes the independent movies can get a little too arty-farty. You watch the IFC Channel and you want to throw up."

On doing a blockbuster:
"I'd just come off working on The Wrestler, which had no budget and I didn't even have a chair to sit in. I remember the first day on Iron Man 2 I said, 'Can I have a cappuccino,' and they said, 'Which kind would you like?'"

On his feelings for movies stars:
"You can be less than mediocre and be a f--ing movie star. I have respect for very few actors and actresses. Some of them get a lot of acclaim but just because their movie made $200 million at the box office; they still suck. I got no respect for them and I used to let them know it."

Comments

[popart]

03:07 PM on 05/10/2010

all you have to do is read the entertainment section of the Huffington Post to lose any respect that you might have ever had for actors....of course that goes for our fine representatives in washington if you read the Politics section of the Huffington Post i might add.

[Lulubelle1]

02:17 PM on 05/10/2010

Mickey is still scrappy as ever, I see. Interesting how quickly the "I'm so humbled. Just glad to be here." thing wears off. It's one thing to just tell it like you see it, and another thing entirely to lead with your chin all the time. Mickey tends to be a bit too pugnacious even for a rebel-lover like myself.

Oh well, here we go again. Nice seein' ya again, Mickey.

[olddognewtrick]

01:10 PM on 05/10/2010

they can't forever...they will have to exhale sometime...

[rationalthought1]

12:40 PM on 05/10/2010

Mickey Rourke has been recognized in europe for decades as one of THE great actors since Brando - he's a legend over there, while so many of the "lightweights" in our country only can think of 9 1/2 weeks and his facial reconstruction (from six years of boxing, by the way). The people who are into film making as an art form recognize Rourke's greatness. I hope, though, that he doesn't create a whole bunch of new enemies in Hollywood and repeat his earlier downfall - he's too important of an actor with too much to contribute.

[NCMiddleman]

11:43 AM on 05/10/2010

Please, Mickey... Barfly 2

[hischagal]

10:51 AM on 05/10/2010

He looks like a has -been middle -aged woman from Miami. It's revolting.

[sisyphus93]

09:34 AM on 05/10/2010

Still a jerk! Attaboy!

[orianna]

07:25 AM on 05/10/2010

Mediocre, overpaid profession! I'll say! Just look at the many mansions and high on the hog lifestyle of Brad Pitt and Angelina.. .they are both 'B' quality in performance, just gets an 'A' in looks, associations and PR machine.... which apparently, along with luck, will get you salaries like the athletes, who rise ONLY with talent.

Jolie's oscar you quarry? She wasn't needing to act so much in Girl Interrupted, after all, she IS whacked out and self-centered.... so no acting there.

Another dime a dozen making it big in Hollywood is George 'what's his name'.. .always sounds the same, no matter the role.

Jennifer Aniston maybe on this list too, but I like her because she at least inspires us to be better people, more wholesome and healthy. She glows, man! So she gets a pass.

[farmilyman]

06:21 AM on 05/10/2010

So then is he an actor or not?

[samoisdead]

09:20 AM on 05/10/2010

He is one of a few great REAL actors.

[aznurse]

04:28 AM on 05/10/2010

I saw "Ironman" today. I wonder what the heck Mickey was saying?

[Promise]

10:58 PM on 05/09/2010

I loved Mickey in The Wrestler and I loved Robert Downey Jr in almost everything. They have a lot in common. I wonder how they got along with each other.

[Adrienne Williams]

12:30 AM on 05/10/2010

I think Robert asked Mickey to be in the movie. He made the part for him I thought.

[MMJones]

10:15 PM on 05/09/2010

Mickey Rourke has soul and he speaks from his own truth, no holds barred. This is refreshing, that there's nothing airbrushed about this excellent actor.

Iron Man 2? Good movie. Entertaining. What more could I ask for to go with my popcorn? For deep philosophical issues, I will read his observations, but take them as that -- his observations from his history. His is compelling. He crawled out of an emotional and physical hole. Bravo, Mickey. I'm a fan.

[indy girl]

06:54 AM on 05/10/2010

"there's nothing airbrushed about this excellent actor"

Sure, except for his face, which is freakily plastic-surgery scary.

[sisyphus93]

09:36 AM on 05/10/2010

And the steroid physique.

[MMJones]

09:42 PM on 05/10/2010

Nah, his face is so poorly surgeried, it in itself is tantamount to wearing a pretty hard lifetime on his face... There's nothing stylist-presented here...

[fabricnthreads]

09:21 PM on 05/09/2010

Especially the ones looking like raisins with hair.

[julbar]

08:57 PM on 05/09/2010

Interesting that this nasty guy is in a film with Robert Downey, Jr. who he called "that little p---k" a few years ago because the industry kept Downey working while he was a convicted drug addict but dissed Rourke's friend, Michael Cimino, for years. Wonder how long Rourke's "second coming" will last? I liked him in Diner, that's it.. For me, he was too hard to look at in "The Wrestler" .

[samoisdead]

09:26 AM on 05/10/2010

Mickey is one of our great American actors.
1.Rumble Fish
2.Barfly
3.Body Heat
4.9 1/2 weeks
5.Diner
6.Year of the dragon

[sisyphus93]

09:37 AM on 05/10/2010

Angel Heart?

Did not care for Body Heat. But generally his 80s work was very enjoyable; I rewatch much of it. Too bad he cracked up.

[Christopher Koulouris]

08:44 PM on 05/09/2010

Has Mickey hit on some truth there. Is that like kind of saying that most movies out of Hollywood are kind of vapid and terrible and have mostly compromised any real or imagined artistic virtue? Is that like saying living in America can only work out if you put down your sense of entitlement and accept that at the end of the day what gets things going isn’t homage to aesthetic misnomers but what carrots gets the American public to open their wallets?

Fortunately for Mickey if the American public were forced to spend their money on qualitative produce as opposed to jingo hyperbole he would have long would have been out of a job. So Mickey we’ll forgive you for now and we’ll just wait when your bosses with the money strings tell us to pay attention to you again, by the way- please don’t break your arm again- you need it so you can help snorting all that blow up your brain.

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