Using steroids in preparing for a movie about a washed-up professional wrestler? Innovative. And recruit an actor known for drug and alcohol abuse to play the protagonist? Interesting.
Actor Micky Rourke's art apparently mimics real life in his role as a age professional wrestler in 'The Wrestler'. Appears he admits to roiding it up for the movie role. To the New York Daily News:
Mickey Rourke really did those backflips and rope dives in “The Wrestler,” but probably not without a little help. Though he doubled his daily 80-minute workouts with an Israeli cage fighter and ate seven meals a day, Men’s
Journal reports that he most likely took steroids.
When asked, Rourke said: “When I’m a wrestler, I behave like a wrestler.”
Behaving like a wrestler would mean getting on the juice, along with some other stuff.
In the past Rourke spent time as a bodybuilder, and a boxer. He knows about the 'program'. He looks to be in pretty good shape for a 56 year-old hard-livin' actor.
It doesn't surprise me, but at the same time, it's not like he got really blown up for the movie either.
Also, never mind wrestling, I think congress ought to be looking at the steroid and HGH usage in hollywood. Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman, and Jake Gyllenhaal all come to mind, just at the top of my head.
Posted by: Eric | 01/11/2009 at 18:24
It doesn't surprise me, but at the same time, it's not like he got really blown up for the movie either.
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