Mickey Rourke called in a favor from old buddy Axl Rose of Guns N Roses for the soundtrack of 'The Wrestler.'Despite his ‘years in the wilderness,’ Mickey Rourke is a pretty well-connected guy.
Throughout our conversation he is profane, very funny and casually drops in a “Francis Coppola” anecdote here, a “Sean Penn” story there.
In fact, in the course of our 15 minutes together, he also manages to throw in references to Dennis Hopper, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, “Chris” Walken and Harvey Keitel (the last four being his fellow alumnus from legendary NYC acting school, Actors Studio).
His friends are not restricted to the movie world either. During the making of his latest movie, “The Wrestler,” the former boxer pulled in a favour from old buddy Axl Rose of seminal 80s rockers “Guns N Roses,” who lent him one of the band’s songs “Sweet Child O’ Mine” for the soundtrack of the film.
“Axl Rose is a good friend of mine and actually, when I used to box, I used to come out to “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” but on our $5.5 million budget we couldn’t afford that music so he gave it to me,” said Rourke, “So that was something really special.”
Rourke was probably pretty glad to be able to help out. Director Darren Aronofsky insisted on having Rourke in the lead in place of the bankable Nicolas Cage. Rourke’s previous bad boy antics on set meant he was almost unemployable in Hollywood for 15 years and Aronofsky’s choice caused the film’s budget to be slashed by more than $10 million.
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