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| In Their Own Words: Mickey Rourke |
| Wednesday April 4 2007 |
| By Tarquin Dick |
| Mickey Rourke: he's so tough he makes medicine sick. |
| In the first in a series of exclusive interviews, Tarquin Dick talks with actor and brain damage sufferer Mickey rourke about his life and career. Tarquin Dick: Tell me about how you first got started as an actor? Mickey Rourke: One of the first movies I ever made was Cheekbone. It took me 14 years to do it. I feel like I’m doing physical or fighting scenes in movies because that was also the time when I went downhill. It was either one of the great actors ever or have him do it. It was the most fun I’ve ever had on a movie. Really terrible lines on the first or second take. Eric Roberts is in some of the bouts. It was one of the happiest times in my fanclub. |
| TD: You famously quit acting for boxing, as you thought that being an actor was not a masculine enough profession. Does the fact that you have now returned to acting mean that you have changed your mind, or are you just more in touch with your feminine side? MR: Come over here, tough guy. I’ll put your ass on the line. If you make interesting choices where you look backwards. Either talk or die. Also it’s funny. I always knew I’d boxed before – maybe two or three people saw it. TD: How does it feel to be making worthwhile films again after years of straight to video crud? MR: Comeback is really the hardest part so wherever I transcend my outspokenness dealing with other people in my life goes on over the camera. TD: Do you have any regrets over the way you handled your relationship with Carre Otis? MR: When the bell rings, if I want to have her back, maybe I should’ve been an athlete. And I can usually cultivate a relationship. She got too scared, robbing a bank perhaps. TD: What’s your favourite thing about working on a movie? MR: They have great strip clubs in Austin, Texas, so I would nail my Rumble Fish. I would have my little red light. I thought my talent would analyze me once but she could have the stunt guy do it. Working again is a good word man, it’s like when the busted nose wasn’t worth the effort. I was trained like an animal, and it hurts a little bit. |
| All stories are fictional and use of real names is intended satirically. |
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| TD: How did you deal with the success you experienced in the eighties?
MR: I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could make money and for me there was no balance. All I am hoping for is to be able to think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a complete sell-out. I have always beaten up pretty good, but it was never really fun. I also had relationship stuff. And it was a major flop. A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is with people in the business. I’d prefer to have the girls come up to me and we would, ah… accomplish something really special – like the results are edgy, raw kinda material. |