He's been pretty critical of Marvel Studios in recent interviews in regards how his portrayal of Whiplash was ultimately delivered in the final cut of Iron Man 2, but the actor has now seemingly decided to take a swipe at director Jon Favreau too! While he doesn't name names, it's not exactly difficult to read between the lines of what he had to say to MTV Splash Page recently. Anyone else getting sick of this guy? While I have no problem with people speaking their mind, what we did see of Rourke (edited or not) was far from amazing, and I can't help but think these remarks are a way of garnering more attention for Immortals!
"If they let you play the bad guy with other dimensions other than one dimensional. You have to fight for that though, to bring layers to the character. Otherwise, if you're working for the wrong studio or let's say a director that doesn't have any balls, then they're just gonna want it to be the evil bad guy."
"So, if you're working with some good studio guys that got brains and you're working with a director with a set of nuts that'll let you incorporate that then it's fun. Otherwise, you end up with what happened on 'Iron Man.'"
"Tarsem was great. He's really smart, innovative. He had little things that were all 'Oh wow.' And that's what it's all about to have somebody working with you that can kind of take your performance further than you maybe think you can or whatever. And he was so enthusiastic that it rubs off on the crew, it rubs off on the other actors. So it's a collaborative, supportive kind of thing, instead of a laborious technical twelve hours. You get through the day and you look forward to going to work the next day, sometimes."
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