Mickey Rourke is letting the press know how he really feels – middle finger salute
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Now that award season is over and he didn’t win the Oscar, reassembled actor Mickey Rourke is letting the press know how he really feels.
There are a lot of things one can say about actor Mickey Rourke but one thing they can’t is that the guy doesn’t know how to entertain.
Rourke played the type of characters many actors aspired to be: dark, edgy, mysterious, and – most important – capable of having a lot of hot sex with amazingly beautiful women. And that’s not only Nine 1/2 Weeks but also Rumblefish, Barfly, and Angel Heart.
Rourke’s failure to land the best actor at the Oscar’s, after receiving the awards at the BAFTAs, the Golden Globes and the Independent Spirit Awards, was perhaps the biggest surprise of the night.
Not to take anything away from Sean Penn’s performance as Harvey Milk, but the Oscars, like American politics, are often determined by a performer’s personal narrative power as much as by their performance.
And this is probably why Mickey Rourke’s snubbing last night was such a surprise – because his narrative was by far the most appealing. This was an actor who had shuttled himself to hell and back several times and now he was offering us a grand performance.
It’s a shame Rourke was denied his trophy, but the world has been denied what would have been the most hilarious radical acceptance speech ever… had he been able to collect his award it would have been the first and possibly the last time an Oscar was dedicated to a dog.
Cheers to you Mickey and … let’s hope next year!
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