Mickey rourke

Now, he is trying to get out of the hole, and recover his battered relationships with the main film directors, whom in the past he kicked when they offered him work. The first sign of his improvement is Sin City (City of Sin) , the film that has changed his life, in which the actor stands out in a cast of authentic luxury.

Philip André, alias Mickey Rourke, was born in New York in 1952. As a young man he already wanted to be a boxer, but he couldn’t stand out in this discipline, so he ended up studying acting at the prestigious Actor’s Studio. When he finished, he gave himself the stage name Mickey, inspired by his idol, baseball player Mickey Mantle, and tried his hand at television. The first major director to notice him was Steven Spielberg himself, who gave him a minor role in his comedy 1941 . And although the film was one of the few hits of King Midas, he recommended the actor to several director friends, such as Lawrence Kasdan , screenwriter of Raiders of the Lost Ark., which also made him appear briefly in his magnificent debut Fuego en el cuerpo . Another pal, Barry Levinson , gave him a prominent role in Diner . The first filmmaker to bet firmly on Rourke was Francis Ford Coppola , who gave him the role of “boy on the motorcycle”, one of the brothers who star in Rumble Law .

In the mid-eighties, Rourke lived a period of splendor. Michael Cimino cast him as a police inspector hell-bent on taking down the mob in South Manhattan , one of the Heaven’s Gate director’s best work . As paradoxically happens in Hollywood on many occasions, his greatest success came with one of his worst jobs, the insipid 9 and a half weeks , one of director Adrian Lyne ‘s calculated scandals , which due to its risque sequences he elevated to the category of erotic myths to the actor and to Kim Basinger . It was followed by two haunting picture thrillers, Angel Heart , by Alan Parker ., where he was a well-meaning detective, and Requiem for Those Who Will Die , in which he played an IRA terrorist trying to abandon violence. And although he had little impact at the box office, one of Rourke’s greatest triumphs, on an acting level, was playing the protagonist of The Drunken , an alcoholic poet for whom the screenwriter, the writer Charles Bukowski , was inspired by his own life. To get away from his handsome image, he played a deformed man in the Walter Hill film Handsome Johnny , whose title was quite ironic. But it was an absolute failure, just like Francesco -peculiar approach to San Francisco de Asís-, Orquídea salvaje-erotic tape that tried to recover the success of 9 and a half weeks – and 37 desperate hours -correct remake of Desperate Hours , by William Wyler -. The biggest fiasco was Dos duros sobre ruedas , a boring modern version of Two Men and a Destiny , which exchanged horses for motorcycles. In 1995, Mickey Rourke announced to great fanfare that he was leaving the cinema to dedicate himself to his true passion, boxing, and at the age of 39 he faced boxers like Poli Díaz, the colt from Vallecas, in the ring. Although he came to insult directors who tried to count on him, and his character was more unstable than ever, they kept giving him small roles, in Double Team, a spin-off starring Van Damme, Get Carter , or Self-Defense , from his former mentor Francis Ford Coppola. In the disastrous 1990s, his most critically acclaimed role was the cross-dressing prisoner in Steve Buscemi ‘s Animal Factory .

The death of his brother made Rourke reflect, who was sunk in a real hell, basically dedicated to riding a motorcycle and looking for a fight. “One day, you wake up in the morning and realize that everything has disappeared. Your prestige, your money, your friends. You are in a dark hole. And then you start praying to God. You ask him out loud to please send some light into your life. And it is that the actor has been helped a lot by religion. “If he had not been a Catholic, my brain would have exploded,” he explained in numerous interviews, after getting out of the rut. He was helped a lot by his friend, the director Tony Scott , who had to confront the production company to give him an important role in Domino , soon to be released. And his work in Sin City (Sin City), where he appeared with generous doses of makeup, has left such a good taste in the mouth that Rourke will reprise his role as Marv, in the imminent sequel.