Mickey Rourke

Mickey Rourke claimed Tom Cruise has been "doing the same f-ing part for 35 years" amid the success of "Top Gun: Maverick."

Rourke concluded, “At the end of the day, you’ve got some nerd with a pocketful of money calling the shots. Unfortunately, the [people] at Marvel just wanted a one-dimensional bad guy, so most of the performance ended up [on] the floor.” “Hey Robert De Niro, that’s right I am talking to you, you big f***ing crybaby,” Rourke wrote of his former “Angel Heart” co-star. Let me tell you something, you punk ass, when I see you I swear to God on my Grandmother, on my brother and all my dogs, I gonna embarrass you severely 100%. Mickey Rourke ‘as God is my witness.'” “I explained to [director Jon] Favreau that I wanted to bring some other layers and colors, not just make this Russian a complete murderous revenging bad guy,” Rourke said at the time. I care about when I watch Al Pacino work and Chris Walken and [Robert] De Niro’s early work and Richard Harris’ work and Ray Winstone’s work.

Mickey Rourke made a dig at Tom Cruise's acting skills, calling the "Top Gun: Maverick" star "irrelevant" in his world on "Piers Morgan Uncensored."

[Montgomery] Clift and [Marlon] Brando back in the day.” Including international showings, the movie’s worldwide total reached $248 million. “The guy’s been doing the same effing part for 35 years…

Mickey Rourke opened up on the decisions he made to endure childhood abuse and reflected on his acting career, calling Tom Cruise "irrelevant."

But I made a decision a long time ago, when I was 14, that I gotta be a man and I had to be a man at 14," Rourke said. "As the years went by, even with the success and the destruction of my career, it was always important for me - because of where I came from - to be a man first and an actor second.” Rourke said it was in his 23 years of therapy where he realized the grave power dynamics that had impacted his career, saying he dealt with people who came "from an authoritarian place."

'The Wrestler' actor laid into Cruise on 'Piers Morgan Uncensored,' saying that Cruise has “been doing the same effing part for 35 years.”

It’s also the biggest film of Cruise’s career and currently holds a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. So while it’s true that Cruise has almost entirely relegated his film work to sequels for the past several years, he certainly has a hungry and satisfied legion of fans. “That doesn’t mean shit to me,” Rourke said. Despite being irrelevant (to Rourke), Top Gun: Maverick has grossed a reported $1.18 billion at the worldwide box office and almost $600 million in the U.S, making it the highest grossing film of 2022 so far.

Mickey Rourke did not mince words when asked by TV host Piers Morgan about fellow actor Tom Cruise and the box-office numbers for 'Top Gun: Maverick.'

After one of the takes (we only did a few) I noticed that both Tom and Val had tears in their eyes. “I think there is a lot of Maverick in Tom, and Iceman in Val, so what you are seeing onscreen is an authentic friendship that has lasted over 36 years. I care about when I watch Al Pacino work and [Christopher] Walken and [Robert] De Niro’s early work and Richard Harris’ work and Ray Winstone’s work. As of Sunday, the Paramount Pictures title had amassed $1.2 billion worldwide. “I don’t care about money and power. I got no respect for that.

One Oscar nominee is taking issue with Tom Cruise's entire career.

Certainly, we’ll be see Tom Cruise play the “same role” again in the coming months, as he has a pair of Mission: Impossible movies on the way, so he’ll be playing literally the same role he has played a half dozen times before. One assumes that the action movie roles will start to slow down at some point, Cruise is 60-years-old after all, but it doesn’t seem likely Tom Cruise will retire from acting when that happens, so maybe we will start to see a more diverse set of performances from him. One can also be critical of the audience, who clearly likes to see him playing those sorts of characters.

In a new interview with Piers Morgan Uncensored, Mickey Rourke was asked about the star and Top Gun: Maverick's success, and the Wrestler actor slammed Cruise ...

"They give you so much back," Cruise said of participating in workshops, even as his career was taking off. Morgan then asked Rourke whether he thinks of Cruise as a good actor. "I don't care about money and power," Rourke said. In a new interview with Piers Morgan Uncensored, Mickey Rourke was asked about the star and Top Gun: Maverick's success, and the Wrestler actor slammed Cruise as "irrelevant" and added that he has "no respect" for him. "I care about when I watch Al Pacino work and Chris Walken and [Robert] De Niro's early work and Richard Harris' work and Ray Winstone's work. I got no respect for that."

During an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan, actor Mickey Rourke revealed he'd been visited by the secret service.

You make threats, Secret Service investigates." Rourke: "Yeah." He did so again in October 2019 saying he'd hit Trump with a "left hook from hell."

Following Heard's high-profile court battle with Johnny Depp, Rourke has shared his take on the proceedings.

"All I could say is, I was in a situation one time where I was blamed for something that I didn't do," Rourke went on. Both Depp and Heard, whose divorce was finalized in 2017, have consistently denied the allegations. Following a six-week trial, the jury on June 1 awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.

Mickey Rourke called Amber Heard a "gold-digger" in a tell-all new interview with Piers Morgan. The actor, who worked with Depp on the 2003 flick "Once Upon ...

Rourke continued, not revealing the incident he was talking about, “It cost me movie jobs for several years and it [gave] me a bad reputation. See more in the clip above. She countersued the actor for $100 million.

Mickey Rourke thinks Amber Heard was only after Johnny Depp's money in the exes' defamation trial.

Heard had a minor victory in her countersuit, with the jury awarding her $2 million in compensatory damages but $0 in punitive damages. It cost me movie jobs for several years, and it caused me a bad reputation.” They were married from 1991 to 1999.