It’s only a few seconds, but damn is it moving and really gives us a taste of how could Rourke is. Obviously his performances is apparently so good it’s generating Oscar buzz, so it’s nice to get a small glimpse of something that really gave us goosebumps.
The clips also has an interview with the film’s director, Darren Aronofsky, and the film’s star, Mickey Rourke. It turns out that Rourke and Aronofsky worked together to re-write the dialogue spoken by Rourke’s character. “When Mickey came on, he and I went over the script word for word,” Aronofsky said. “Basically every line in the movie he rewrote for his own mouth. Mickey wanted to bring his own interpretation to it.” Man, that’s crazy. We hope he didn’t change too much, some of the lines in the script are pretty killer.
There’s also an interview with Mickey Rourke’s and much to our surprise, his natural speaking voice isn’t as rough as the voice used by the characters in most of his recent films. On another note, I’m not sure what’s up with Rourke’s Mark David Chapman look. Rourke also talks about how the director basically told him, “you’ve fucked up your career for 15 years and no one wants to hire you, [so] you’re going to have to listen to everything I tell you [and] you’re going to have to do everything I say.” We’re pretty sure he’s just kidding around and being self-deprecating about how his promising career was thrown in the toilet for many years (though dudes, he was so fucking good in “Buffalo ’66”), but man, it’s kind of hard to tell cause he’s so bloody straight-faced about it.
