In the show “Piers Morgan Uncensored”, Mickey Rourke violently attacked Tom Cruise. According to him, the star of Top Gun: Maverick is “off topic” and has been playing the “same role for 35 fucking years”.
With 1.18 billion dollars in international box office receipts, 600 million collected in the United States and 5 million spectators in France, Top Gun: Maverick is undoubtedly the most profitable film of 2022 to date and the most great success of the career of Tom Cruise.
But that doesn’t seem to impress Mickey Rourke, winner of the Best Actor Oscar in 2009 for Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler. Interviewed on the show Piers Morgan Uncensoredthe Angel Heart actor called Tom Cruise “off topic.”
For him the success of the film means nothing:”It doesn’t mean anything to me. [Tom Cruise] played the same role for 35 fucking years. I have no respect for that. I don’t care about money or power.
When I watch Al Pacino or Christopher Walken work, or the early films of De Niro, Richard Harris and Ray Winstone, these are the kind of actors I want to be like. They are actors stepping out of their comfort zone.“
When the presenter asks him if he enjoys the Top Gun star’s acting, Rourke replies “I think it’s irrelevant in my world.”
Mickey Rourke has not appeared in the cinema in a major role since Sin City: I killed for her in 2014. The actor and former boxer has also shot many films for VOD. He will soon be appearing in Roman Polanski’s film The Palace alongside Oliver Masucci and Fanny Ardant and should then play Genghis Khan in the eponymous film by RZA.