While walking around Venice last week, Mickey Rourke suddenly stopped and "pinched myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming." No wonder. Twenty-one years and countless stumbles after his last notable film role, the former bad-boy actor is enjoying success again as star of Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and now is playing at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Rourke comments on his wrestling training:
"People think because you were a boxer you can wrestle, but they're day and night," Rourke said. "Plus we didn't have a big budget, so we had to cram in three months of wrestling practice. I was terrible for the first month and a half. Every time some 265-pound guy threw me across the room, I couldn't move for two days. I gained a lot of respect for the sport."...More?
source: bloomberg.com
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