mickey rourke the best interview

[@belleme861]

mickey used to come onto a coffee shop where i worked. he would go tanning next door then come in for a coffee. super nice, respectful and down to earth. one of my co-workers was an aspiring actor and mickey talked to him for a long time about acting and really listened too, great listener. 💜💜💜💜 mickey!

[@topsyturvyy4558]

I can imagine, he looks like one of those guys who weren't contaminated by the Hollywood crap. Nowadays actors criticize everything, even capitalism...the very same thing that has made them fulthy rich. 😅

[@solidmercury1]

He seems gay though.

[@PerryCuda]

Mickey is authentic, wanting nothing to do with the pretense of Hollywood. Mickey goes to a tanning spa.🤔

[@loriflynn78]

I'll always remember Mickey for his honesty

[@MacJaxonManOfAction]

"I've got an old friend who's a shoemaker who I've got more respect for." Well, it finally happened. I just went from liking Mickey Rourke, to loving him.

[@savedbygamer9293]

"I will eat their asshole". I was searching for this interview, finally found it again.

[@robertbauer3419]

Why would somoene who is a shoemaker be automatically considered in a negative way or especially why would he be disrespected? If he or she is a good person and they like what they do with the shoes, why is that something bad or disrespectful? So Warren Beatty or any famous actor should be automatically respected but somoene who makes or fixes shoes should be disrespected? Sorry Mickey, I think you fucked up on that statement and offended your own friend who is a shoemaker. Yeah... imagine me syaing for an interview: " I met Ryan Reynolds once and he is a complete fucking idiot. I gotta a friend who is black and works as a janitor and I have more respect for him than that stupid Cnadaian Van Wilder looking fuck!"

[@paulojansen1625]

A real artist. I respect his choices a lot. A man of convictions, I respect him even more for that.

[@MrHankscorpio100]

love the celtic scarf he's got on. legend!

[@jonsnowswife9550]

One thing I like about mickey is that he’s an honest guy the fact he doesn’t act like an asshole to his fans or anything makes me respect him more

[@wendelldallas7572]

1:49 - the facial expression he makes while discussing Warren Beatty is priceless 🤣🤣🤣

[@tnt01]

Love it. Lol😂

[@ramonexs9bm769]

i love this guy, Rumble Fish, classic, must see. all respect to you Mickey.

[@jasonhuttermusic424]

By far my favorite actor when I was growing up in the 80s. I saw him in Pope of Greenwich Village and Rumble Fish and I was hooked.

[@changunn]

The one man that keeps it real every time. He will always have my respect for his no bull%*#+ attitude!

[@joliecide]

he's so right abt Hollywood living in a bubble-- they're so detached from reality

[@esquibelle]

God Love ya Mickey for telling it like it is about Warren Beatty. I knew him during the Paramount heyday, and he was the biggest creep in town, and hit on anything that breathed.

[@crr463]

Great actor! Even in Point Blank an action B movie, he was cool to watch! and coming from stage and do boxing he did great at nearly 40. respect.

[@pecodo2]

mickey is the fucking man!...met him in miami and he's so real in person too. legit!

[@redskywalker3374]

Mickey taught me I don't have to smile for anyone if I don't wanna ..

[@tommydillon5145]

we are who we are .. good guy in my book love to meet him .

[@tjs597]

my type of man who don't take crap and tells it like it is.

[@ImYourHuckleberry_29]

@BigErn_Mccraken and what about his injuries?

[@mechanicjobs]

Mickey Rourke is one of the most real people in Hollywood. Much respect. 👍❤️🇨🇦

[@babkeebabkus8177]

I liked his letterman interview...he seemed cheeky...assholish and shy and also a bit jaded and sensitive and vulnerable

[@АлисаЧу]

Одно из любимых интервью - Микки там такой открытый , сильный но мягкий демократичный как большой мужчина и его любит публика , он не огрызнулся ни на одну реплику журналиста- тролля, он не терпел - он был сама доброта. Это великий добряк с кулаками, который больше матерится, от того что ему приходится сдерживать себя. Я вижу в этом прогресс его личности, попробуйте изменить себя, свои привычки,и вы поймете, как дорого это стоит. Микки перестроил отношение к людям, понимая, что он публичный человек. Но не надо дразнить льва....

[@julio26789]

mickey rourke is just being real he don't kiss ass and most actors are creeps.

[@Confidentk9sCa]

Hollywood missed out on doing more with Mickey Rourke. His strong and real bad boy personality is the kind people crave to watch especially if given a decent script. He's always reminded me of Clint Eastwood; even though their personalities are extremely different, they both have unique, real, strong, silent bad boy personalities that draw people in.

[@blacksunshine1089]

He always reminded me more of Bruce Willis, but grittier and more controversial. That said, I agree. It seems like Hollywood these days is about promoting a bunch of metrosexuals instead.

[@topsyturvyy4558]

@@blacksunshine1089 When this interview was aired Hollywood was a convalescence hispital nowadays as you say it has become a psychiatric ward and the scary part is that people believe what they say.

[@TheShiatsuKitty]

You nailed it blackshine. Makes sense that the role of Butch Coolidge was offered to Rourke before Willis took it. I LOVE Bruce Willis, but Mickey Rourke could have done everything he did but with more depth (and that’s saying a lot, because Willis was a solid dramatic actor when he wanted to be.)

[@The_Touring_Jedi]

F..k the Hollywood...😂😂😂as Mickey once said. Scared for their fame living in a bubble...😂

[@LayneStaley-zl2iq]

@@blacksunshine1089 wow. I see the resemblance. He's like Bruce's tougher older brother! 😄

[@sickolinokio]

Rourke rulessss my fav actor ever

[@seanogorman3617]

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro man is one of my faves. Classic.

[@alessandroalessandri2127]

Mickey remains the best after Brando👍

[@ImYourHuckleberry_29]

You read my thoughts

And both despised actors and acting.

[@ImYourHuckleberry_29]

@ totally. So odd the similarities. Irish blood. Both dads were jerks. Serious issues with women. Both angel faced with prizefighter bodies. Not much substance abuse for either. Not the most prolific. If anything, Mickey was even MORE natural as an actor. I really wish they had gotten to meet one another.

[@MaxDemboNo1]

Funny how a year or two after this Daniel day Lewis trained with Barry maguigan for the movie The Boxer then he gave it all up to become a shoemaker for a while..It's like he wanted respect..Haha

[@ontplates]

hes always been one to speak his mind. good for him.....if you know mickey, you know where you stand with him.

[@jessfilmscape]

He got blacklisted from Hollywood at one point cause he basically didn't let them shovel shit at him, and refused to become a product of their choice. Kudos to him for doing that 🤙🏼

[@unfortunatebeam]

"maybe someday somebody who's got a set of balls will give me a shot" very prophetic of his teaming up with Aronofsky for the Wrestler

[@624radicalham]

No. Teaming up with Stallone in 1997 when nobody believed in him anymore

[@joelgalvan8358]

Masterpiece, marlsa. Great.

[@ZdenekLU]

In Johnathan Ross Final show he said Sly Stalone helped him - I supose it was Get Carter remake from 2001. And before Wrestler he played awesome in Sin City.

[@rishdog100]

Still can't believe he turned down pulp fiction... Wow. That part was absolutely made for him... Even though Bruce Willis played the part , after hearing it was offered and I think written for Micky , everytime I watch pulp fiction I just think of Micky playing Butch... The part at the end where Butch says .. "Z's dead baby ... Z's dead.... " Mickey should of owned that.

[@elfambino4066]

That's insane man That role wouldve suited him PERFECTLY

[@blacksunshine1089]

@Donna di Lode I used to confuse the two all of the time. The first couple times I saw ‘Bullet’ and ‘The Pope of Greenwich Village’, I thought it was Bruce Willis. To me Mickey Rourke was like the grittier version of Bruce Willis.

[@shinseisan6639]

Wow....it makes sense now

[@bloodmoon4012]

Bruce was amazing in pulp fiction but l can totally see Mickey Rourke doing that part. He is the definition of punk rock love Mickey he doesn’t fake anything. He is who he is

[@TheShiatsuKitty]

Tarantino literally wrote the role for Mickey and wanted it to be his comeback vehicle. Imagining Rourke and Travolta, wow.

[@singers333]

Listening to Mickey talk makes me think that other actors are really full of themselves and it must be really hard to work around them. He is so real he does not seem like someone who would kiss ass to anyone. What you see is what you get.

[@TruthAplomado]

That is because he came from nothing. Most if not all modern actors came from something, Hollywood bloodline, a son or daughter of a stakeholder in a studio, etc

[@rigby7662]

Nailed it

[@francoisnel5253]

@@TruthAplomado yeah, it's a fake world full of posers. Doors open for those without morals and willing to use sex / lust a tool. If you speak too openly in that industry doors close quickly. Been around the industry for 10 years.

[@efilperpenfuhrer]

Love Mickey. The one with the balls from Hollywood who gave him the return-chance ticket (bumping out Nicolas Cage) was the Aronofsky director of "The Wrestler," a film that unfortunately got ripped off by the academy awards people who preferred to make that special night a theme for gay rights. Gay rights is okay, but The Wrestler shoulda won.

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

That's only partly true. You're leaving out that a lot of the people who vote for the winners don't like Mickey Rourke and that was his fault.

[@FranzSanchez-wt8mj]

@@BigBadJerryRogers Not only that, I think the prudish Academy were terrified he was gonna start dropping F bombs on the podium if he won.

[@AnnaLVajda]

Lots of gays probably like to watch wrestling I think it's sort of gay looking.

[@efilperpenfuhrer]

@@FranzSanchez-wt8mj You and BigBadJerry Rogers make good points that certainly add to what I said 4 years ago. FOUR YEARS AGO? Man, time is going by too too fast.

[@generalyellor2187]

Come out of your closet, little... "fuhrer"?

[@SigurdTheBigturd]

Coolest guy ever in the entire universe.

[@datatsushi2016]

True. Even today he's still cool cay

[@xIIIQueenOfSwordsIIIx]

He was woke to Hollywood years before anyone else was.

[@kds5895]

Just about everyone who’s set foot in that town for more than five minutes is wise to it. They just lack the authenticity to say it out loud. I’m sure most people in Hollywood feel the way he does about Warren Beatty, but “Yes” is the name and sycophancy is the game

[@willysnowman]

@@kds5895 Bonezpuz still lost AGAIN!! LMFAO 🤣😆

[@giovanna722]

​@@kds5895 Marlon Brando did it years before Mickey. Both had the street sense to know truth from otherwise, and the toughness to stand up to it.

[@pinnacleproductions6275]

Except Mickey Rourke then sold out to the Hollywood elite and is now woke in the worst way.

[@andy-uj3de]

He was awake not woke dont be one of them woke assholes hahaha

[@keithrichardsom1898]

Love Mickey Rourke,his attitude work ethic , top man

[@myaccount2604]

Love him. He looks v irish.

[@Snipes-76]

i respect anyone who says what they actually mean out loud....instead of putting it softly or textbook.....call it bad manners all you want but he's real. that's it..

[@dowdallerno1]

Love Micky.💚🍀✊🍀

[@JI7NKJ]

Real honest guy that says it as it is and being a fan of my beloved Glasgow Celtic just tops it off.

[@rigby7662]

Mickey, always keepin it real 💯

[@CobainLennon8094]

I love this guy. Bullet might be the most underated movie ever! Ted Levine who played Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs plays his brother and should have got 4 oscars for that role.

[@timtim8644]

Only real men knows Bullet

[@MrCarpen7er]

@@timtim8644 ??? Lol, That movie is the gayest thing ever, but ok...

[@maureenthomas9758]

Good film. Tupac was decent in it too.

[@KuriReevel]

Bullet is my favourite movie!

[@jogon7914]

I always remember Mickey in this interview. I knew he'd slagged off Alec Baldwin but I couldn't remember where I'd seen it. Now I remember it was Terry talking to him on The Word. Mickey was cool as fuck. What a great interview. He just didn't give a fuck about Hollywood and the arse kissers.

[@getheroutofthetruck]

Check out Desperate Hours by Michael Cimino. Critics shat on it, but it has to be one of Mickey's best performances.

[@soniastarmorales8013]

All Mickey's movies are great.

[@aaronstielstra6055]

Remarkable sincerity. And his Hollywood comments...the real deal.

[@kenw.simpson1007]

He's a better actor than a fighter.

[@tru2harris998]

Wrong there, he won nearly every one of his fights! Hes THE best at what ever he chooses to do. Best truth teller included. And including how he Stands up to the evil that rule hollywood and took it with iron fists when the evil pervs of Hollywood tried to destroy his reputation, and then hes the only winner to make THE most successful comeback ever! No one else can top that!! He's a savant of talent, always comes out on top no matter what!!

[@kenw.simpson1007]

@@tru2harris998 I can tell a good boxer from a bad one - and the fights featuring Rourke were obviously staged. He hadn't a clue how to box - or even hit properly. I think he may have as high as. kite. He even staggered on his way to the ring.

[@tru2harris998]

So can I, my family are boxers! But did you not listen to how many matches he won, HE WON nearly all of them, hence he's a great boxer!!!!??

[@kenw.simpson1007]

@@tru2harris998 I only saw the videos of the fake fights - in which he knocked out his opponents while high as a kite -- who dropped on cue. - so after seeing that I could never believe the guy

[@kenw.simpson1007]

@@tru2harris998 He's a con man. You can't believe anything he says.

[@donaldalbano6484]

My kinda peeps, no BS and tells it like it is. We need more people like this. More Mickey Rourkes and less Matt Damons and less Jude Laws and less Leonardo DiCaprios and less Donnie Wahlbergs and so on and so on. More substance, less fluff. Mickey is one of the best actors ever.

[@MisAnnThorpe]

LIke Mr. Rourke, I don't really like any actors but DiCaprio is a superb actor.

[@hw5091]

He tells it like HE THINKS it is. A goofy lib these days. More plastic surgery than anyone besides michael jackson. Great actor though.

[@generalyellor2187]

Yes, we need more deformed actors with bad plastic surgeries who gave up being a great actor to become a terrible, terrible boxer. After watching all of his fight videos here on KZbin, I can confidently attest that Mickey is the worst "professional" fighter I have ever seen in a ring.

[@boxingmonkey8621]

I was absolutely Gutted when he didn’t win the Oscar for the Wrestler If EVER there was an actor destined for a role That was his Academy Award And Sean Penn (Great Actor) won it for MILK A shame

[@josephdimalante7023]

That's why he's the Pope!

[@farragutspikes1]

Such an admirable way to stay productive than acting. Great man.

[@generalyellor2187]

Yes, writing poetry for nothing as oppose to making millions practicing the craft you are actually great at. Because it certainly isn't poetry writing, much less boxing. Watch his videos; he's the worst professional boxer you'll have ever seen.

[@AW-kr9fl]

Mickey should’ve played Butch in Pulp Fiction at this time. The role was perfect for him. The chain smoking, motorcycle riding, tough but romantic boxer was literally him. He even looks the part here with the shaved head. I loved Bruce Willis’ performance but I always wish Mickey was in Pulp Fiction. Apparently he threw the script in the trash without reading because he was boxing and it didn’t pay enough.

[@reasonabledoubt6908]

😮😮😮I did not k ow this, utterly he would've been perfect !! It's him all over.. and as much as I liked Bruce in it, always felt he looked too old for it, but monkey would've been perfect 👌damn shame. Shouldn't have been so rash.. why would he he need a come back hit and after dogs why the fk not !!?!?!?🤯- too many blows to the head!

[@jamesmaass8929]

Barfly is one of my all time favorite movies, Mickey is a frickin natural, the guy is a guy I'd hang out with, not that , thst would me sh to him or anyone else. I just find his no nonsense anti Hollywood attitude refreshing, dude sucks up to no one . Respect my man

[@mechanicjobs]

Mickey is the best.

[@Tedesco333]

I like him like that, Bullet mode, hangin witth 2Pac 94'. He doesn't have to proove anything to anyone.

[@johnulcer]

Daniel Day-Lewis didn't deserve that though. One of the few method actors of that generation who was able to stand alongside Rourke and has given some brilliant performances.

[@Talisman09]

HA. Daniel Day Lewis is 50 fucking times the actor Mickey Rourke is.

[@ImYourHuckleberry_29]

​@taliwakka27 really? Nah. Ddl really overdoes it. Kinda hammy. Mick keeps it natural

[@summershipula5613]

I don't have anything to prove either, Mickey. I feel you.

[@Schizm1]

What a cool guy. His biography itself could be great movie material

[@pacovl46]

He was only impossible to work with directors/actors who are assholes! Ask Coppola, Cimino or Alan Parker about Mickey if you want the real story.

[@Katimaci]

Mickey Rourke Nr.1

[@Snipes-76]

he says it how it is.....that's rare these days

[@nightshade7206]

I love Mickey. He is the real deal.

[@Amar1338]

Mick is a real Man

[@ruk777]

Micky Rourke is BAD ASS! His latest few films have been his best ever. The early stuff is gay, films like the Wrestler and Spun show that he is an awesome actor whom I have big respect for.

[@yourthaiguy]

The most naturally gifted actor since Brando. And like Brando? Grew to hate his craft and distrust the industry, largely throwing away his career when he was at his most in demand. Shame. Also like Brando? Mickey was one of the most handsome men in Hollywood and today is virtually unrecognizable compared to the 80's.

[@SunsetSheen]

love this guy. So happy he's back on top now. Same with Robert Downey Jr

[@Deanerx]

Mickey is the best!

[@bretthumphrey6821]

We lost alot of great years where mickey didn't act

[@ZeroESG.goopootoob]

This interview presentation makes me have to like Mickey Rourke. He called Hollywood a bunch of 'maggots' with an 'f.'

[@ToeIn2194]

Some actors wont" play the game" ,and they have a cult following like folk heroes or the anti hero type of thing,but Mickey Rourke is unique in the sense that he Can't play the game,and that is because with all his pluses and minuses he is,ultimately,hopelessly who he is inside.His journey has been about his own life,his own perceptions,and he happens to be connected to acting,as an aside.

[@drinksupreme]

Bullet is his best movie.

[@paulholman8594]

Staunch man 💙 love Micky

[@Haerinx87]

1:45 Mickey's talking about Warren Beatty is hilarious 😂

[@Wheresnorth4romhere]

mickey rourke is a real life hero!

[@h.jensvoss2140]

A different person compared to later

[@edrosenbloom1156]

It's July 2023. In light of more information available nowadays (and even that is a fraction) about Hollywood, I understand his decision to not be a part of it better. He saw the inside and it was not pretty. Bless this man, and much respect to him for not caving in. ❤

[@jays2474]

I fucking love this guy.I never seen this interview.He just became my favorite hollywood star,& its because of this interview from 17 years ago lol.I love his Warren Beatty comment lol.

[@cabronicusmaximuschingonic1062]

That's why people like Mickey. What you see, is what you get. You don't like it? Fuck off! Not to mention that he is respectful, polite and educated. The guy was, and still is, a rebel.

[@hogleg2]

He makes your typical hollywood actor look like sh!t. One of the greatest actors of our time. thx mickey

[@solargesture]

ah that 90's garb... beautiful. Mickey's the man

[@MrTonycoughlan]

That a Celtic scarf round his neck?

[@aaartnaz]

that irish folk music sounds pretty good. does anybody know how i can find more of that type of music?

[@Grum895]

aaartnaz if you want that particular song, just look for Irish Rover, probably by the Dubliners & the Pogues ;)

[@efilperpenfuhrer]

+aaartnaz come to newfoundland

[@hakancevikel4474]

In fact he is 5' 11'' tall but he looks much taller.

[@bellorusso]

Wow, really? He does look way taller indeed.

[@edp3202]

To me he looks short and slight.

[@Slugworth79]

well he is 60 years old, but im sure he still has it when needed.

[@DannyTheWildBoy]

was a bad period for mickey he has matured and learned in life so much of this period is an expression of his lost years now back in the wrestler a huge comeback even though he has always been great and always will be

[@dixonstreetdrummer1846]

They say you can’t choose your family, but you can always choose your friends. I’d choose Mickey as a brother and a friend. Good luck to the guy. Stuck to his principles and honesty no matter what. I hope he’s doing well.

[@patriciathrelfall9873]

Great guy, fair play to someone that does not take crap from shit heads, love ya mickey

[@SUGARPOP73]

funny that in his career he never got an oscar,only a nomination,and guys like Clooney ,wtf! got 2

[@skorpyo331]

Awesome interview.

[@sigistardust]

He should play the part of Butch in Pulp Fiction, as Tarantino wanted, but Mickey turned it down, becouse he wanted to be a boxer, not an actor. AAHHH he was just PERFECT for the part. Even the chopper, at thee end.

[@l.jsockington28]

apparently he didn't even read the script, he just didn't want to act at that point

[@cloudbuster77]

@Tigerlily21 Well, that and he's Shirley McClaine's brother and I think he produced Easy Rider so he's connected with powerful ppl like nicholson. Connections are everything everywhere especially hollywood. Soooo many of our actors have family members that are are in the industry. Beatty does seem weird. Did you see him in Madonna's doc 'Truth or Dare'?

[@AndrewsOpinion15]

MICKEY ROURKE SUCH GREAT BOXER !!!!!!

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

One of the alltime greats.

[@Wiseguy453]

I wish his segment on why he doesn't care for actors lasted longer. I watched 1:36-1:58.

[@q1w2e3r4t5y6i8]

It's somewhat confusing that he hates Daniel Day-Lewis, not just necessarily and generally because Dan is thought of as great actor, but also because Mickey was on record saying that he admired ''In The Name of The Father'' even though he despised the script when he had first read it himself. Hmm...he must've focused on Emma Thompson (who wrote him a letter, congratulating him for his comeback in ''The Wrestler'').

[@petesasauce]

Mickey may come off as being a bit crude here, but I am a fan. The man is probably one of our finest living actors, and he's also evolved into a great human being. I think he's done a lot of living and learning since this interview. (I still like to watch this and see him disparage Alec Baldwin and Warren Beatty, though!)

[@vale-y1i]

He is a class act! The best bit is at 1:46!

[@aaartnaz]

some might think i'd be crazy to suggest this but i think he would be vintage epic again in some kind of dog drama, not a family dog movie but something he usually does that's different and not what you expect. there are some dog movies out there where they're not cutesy and at the same time he can educate the public about animal abuse, etc.

[@frederickbarbarossa93]

Mickey Rourke is the king. Such a IDGAF actor which resembles the late great Marlon Brando

[@radi2986]

It's crazy in 1997 when he had a botched plastic surgery . His face was never the same

[@digipeeper]

He is as real as they come and tell it like it is. I understand what he says about Warren Beatty, Alec Baldwin and Kevin Costner. But Daniel Day Lewis?!?! Very shocked he is included in his talk down. Overall, he should have continue making movies with his good looks still intact.

[@hobowithawaterpistol9070]

Mickeys great! I never understand why they never mention Johnny Handsome whenever there’s an interview with him! As far as I’m concerned, that was his best movie! I remember the first movie I saw of his was Rumblefish! He’s one of the coolest guys in HW!

[@Xtos1989]

mickey rourke - telling it like it is