The bad end of Mickey Rourke: from Sex Symbol to Big Brother’s competitor (homophobic)

If thirty years ago they had told us that Mickey Rouke he would end as a competitor of Big Brother Vip We probably wouldn’t have believed it. At the beginning of the career it seemed, in fact, that Rourke had all the credentials to enter the legend and become a sex symbol like George Clooney and Brad Pitt: The success of films such as For dinner with friends, Rusty the wild and, in particular, 9 weeks and 1⁄2 They seem to consecrate him as a new Hollywood idol to the point that when he plays San Francesco d’Assisi in the 1989 Liliana Cavani film, many shout at the miracle because everything was obvious except that an actor in such rapid ascent accepted not only to work in Italy but also to dress in a sort of mystical aura.

Mickey Rourke in 1989. (Photo by NewSastakers)Diane Freed

Unfortunately for him, Mickey Rourke’s career is almost struck down in the bud because of certain of his intemperances on the set And, in particular, for the increasingly insistent voices on the abuse of drugs that, in fact, remove him from the set in the period in which he was shining more. The wrong roles, a private life at the limits of excess, the decision to jump on the boxing, reporting, among other things, several accidents and a frantic use of plastic surgery do the rest: Hollywood was wrong, took a blunder, writes someone, and in fact, from that moment on, Mickey Rourke comes out of the radar and is now associated only with one of those meteors that has evaporated even before taking off. Certain, The success of The Wrestler At the Venice Film Festival in 2008 and his first Golden Globe make someone hope for his change of coursebut the idyll does not last long. This is why the decision to take part in 2025 in the American version of Big Brother Vip Nobody is no longer surprised, even if few would have expected his adventure to end up badly.

(Photo by Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)Paul Archuleta/Getty Images

After just six days of stay, in fact, Mickey Rourke is expelled for «the use of offensive and homophobic language aimed at other competitors» – In an episode, in fact, Rourke explains to the Queer Jojo Siwa singer that, if she had remained enough days, she would no longer have been a lesbian -. To complicate things is also the declaration of Bella Thorne who said that, on the set of the film Girl From 2020, Rourke would have hit his intimate parts on several occasions with a metal whisk making it feel humiliated and inadequate. It is not the first time that a Hollywood star has encountered a sensational fall, but he really sorry that Mickey Rourke has decided to play his cards so badly. Perhaps, at this point, it was worth insisting with boxing and avoid the fool at the Big Brother Vipeven just to let the frame of 9 weeks and 1⁄2 With Kim Basinger he remained in our memory without being contaminated by these ugliness.

Source: Vanity Fair

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