Mentally Lost
Double Team (1997)
Surely a cautionary tale for How The Mighty Can Fall. Rourke, post-boxing, goes from starring with the likes of Robert De Niro to playing second fiddle against… Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman.
Still, Rourke sucked it up and even tried to praise the film during the Making Of. "I used to look down on this type of movie but you have to use a tremendous amount of concentration to do this work, the same as if you were doing Shakespeare,” he says.
“I haven't had a chance to get bored on this movie, because they're working me out like a horse.”
As Stavros, the international terrorist who goes on after our “heroes”, he puts his head down and gets on with it.
The unbalanced Stavros is definitely indicative of Mickey’s mental state at the time – OTT, unfocused and willing to do anything to keep his life as is - or, in the thesp's case, as was.
He'd have to wait a while before decent work came calling...
Next: Comeback Kid
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