Since Mickey Rourke is now a rising star thanks in big part to his leading actor nomination for the Oscar for "The Wrestler", the foreign reporters asked him a few questions to him (that´s why i only found this in Spanish).
In an interview yesterday in Paris, where he assists to promote "The Wrestler", Mickey Rourke said that he has left behind his life of excesses but not without effort, which has made him to value integrity above all, a quality needed by him to work with a director.
He looks forward to work with director with vision and that don´t search only the money, like Francis Ford Coppola,Alan Parker and Michael Cimino or with the spanish director Pedro Almodóvar( remember "Talk to Her"?, "All about my mother", "Volver" ?) Hey he didn´t mention Johhn Favreau. mmmhh...
He also said that he doesn´t want to repeat past mistakes as to following "The system" (like buying a mantion in Micjey said, who mentioned that that´s what happened when Darren Aronofsky offered the leading role for The Wrestler.
ROURKE REVEALED THAT ARONOFSKY SAID TO HIM: "I WON´T PAY YOU, BUT I PROMISE YOU A NOMINATION". AND THAT HE DECIDED TO ACCEPT BECAUSE HE IS A MAN THAT " I DON´T WANT TO GO TO HOLLYWOOD AND EARN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS", BUT THAT HE WAGERS FOR WHAT HE WANTS AND GOES TO THE END WITH IT.
Then he talks about his experience working in The Wrestler, how he respects the work of Wrestlers and boxers from real life, talks about the rrest of the cast, how he ended in the hospital during filming and how he sees some similitudes between him and former champion Randy Robinson.
In the note they mention, as you know, that he beat B Pitt and S Penn in the recent Golden Globes awars as best leading actor, but that he "woul be the happiest man on earth" if Sean wins the Oscar. (Sean Penn and M Rourke have been all life friends, and that Sean was with him in the good and hard times, when he says, threw his life in the toilet and lost everything)
He assures that thanks to his therapist and his years in professional boxing he realized that he needed to focus, and that Aronofsky was exactly the person he needed because "he is like a couch, he demands more and more from me", and that the director fulfil his promise of the nomination (though he admits the winning is not in his hands).
AND NOW THE IRON MAN II PART: (if you have read until here, maybe YOU are more of a Mickey Rourke fan than an Iron Man fan haha):
He insisted that his future projects must include a person with integrity.
He currently works with a Palestinian director in Brazil and that he "may" work in Iron Man II, and that that´s something "I want to do,they want me to do and we are talking"