Mickey Rourke Doesn't Think Cruise Is A Good Actor, Calls Him "Irrelevant"

Mickey Rourke has branded Tom Cruise "irrelevant".

Speaking to Pier Morgan's on his TalkTV show Uncensored on Monday (July 11), Rourke, 69, reveals that he isn't a big fan of the Mission: Impossible daredevil whom he accused of doing "the same effing part" in his movies for decades.

When asked to weigh in on Cruise's triumphant run with Top Gun: Maverick, the Sin City star said, "That doesn't mean s*** to me.

“The guy’s been doing the same effing part for 35 years. I got no respect for that.

“I don’t care about money and power. I care about when I watch Al Pacino work and Chris Walken and De Niro’s early work and Richard Harris’s work and Ray Winstone’s work. That’s the kind of actor I want to be like. Monty Clift and Brando back in the day. The kind of guys who tried to stretch as actors."

The British host also asked Rourke if he thought Cruise is a good actor. 

“I think he’s irrelevant, in my world," said the Angel Heart actor.  

In the interview, Rourke also talked about having therapy for 23 years to tackle the "shame" he felt over his abusive childhood.

He said: "I came from a very shameful upbringing and it was very violent, and very physically abusive and mentally.

"When I left home, like 14 or 15… I was so happy that the physical pain was over, because that was horrifying but I didn’t realise it was going to f*** me up in my head and my way of dealing with people."

Rourke began to "alienate" those around him and was "living in shame", resulting in him "getting hard" to survive.

He said: "There comes a time and it happened when I was about 14 and when you are living in shame there is nothing worse. You have two choices — you either live in shame, and you become a broken soul or person, or you get hard.

"I chose to get hard not by choice but by survival."

— BANG SHOWBIZ

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