Mickey Rourke is not breath taken with Tom Cruise’s acting.
The “Sin City” actor called the “Top Gun: Maverick” star irrelevant in a new interview.
“The guy’s been doing the same effing part for 35 years … I got no respect for that,” Rourke, 69, said on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” when he was asked about Cruise, 60, reviving his role from the original 1986 “Top Gun” film on Monday.
Rourke also commented that he wasn’t impressed that “Maverick” was Cruise’s first film to rake in more than $1 billion at the box office.
“I don’t care about money and power,” Rourke said, arguing that Cruise’s acting skills don’t match up to other big names in Hollywood.
“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, that’s the kind of actor I want to be like. Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando back in the day.”
When pushed again, to really answer if he thought Cruise was a good actor, Rourke didn’t hold himself back from saying how he truly feels.
“I think he’s irrelevant, in my world,” Rourke replied.
“Top Gun: Maverick,” a sequel to the 1986 cult classic, made headlines after pulling in more than $100 million during its first three days in North American theaters. Including international showings, the movie’s worldwide total reached $248 million.
However, it was reported that by the end of June, “Maverick” pulled in more than $1 billion at the box office globally.
And due to the film’s major success, Cruise’s co-star Miles Teller revealed that a “Top Gun 3” could be in the works.
When did Mickey Rourke become relevant? Guess it takes one to know one.
And Rourke starred in how many movies? Most of the time he’s a supporting actor and not the main character. So I guess he’s not very relevant either.
I like him but i am not Tom Cruise’s biggest fan!! However Rourke what movies or for that matter anything worth remembering? And for those great actors you named and said you want be like all of them, the only thing I can do is laugh and tell you to wish in one hand shit in the other see which one gets filled first, cause you will never be as good or relevant as any of them
including Tom Cruise!
I like Mickey, but he couldn’t act his way out of a wet paper bag, to compare himself with Tom Cruise is a joke.
MICKEY, sloppy looking bum couldnt compare tom cant remember h any of his movies