Mickey Rourke is an iconic American actor who’s starred in films like… can anybody name one?
Ok, ok, he’s been in Sin City, Man On Fire, The Wrestler, Iron Man 2, and many more, but let’s face it, we’re not talking about Leonardo DiCaprio here.
So when he shit all over Tom Cruise in a new interview with Piers Morgan today, it left the Twitter world scratching their head.
When asked about Tom Cruise’s new Top Gun sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, the Mickey tore into him:
“That doesn’t mean shit 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.
I think he’s irrelevant, in my world.”
"The guy's been doing the same effing part for 35 years… I got no respect for that."
Mickey Rourke tells Piers Morgan he thinks Tom Cruise is "irrelevant" as an actor.@piersmorgan | @TalkTV | #MickeyRourke | #PiersMorganUncensored pic.twitter.com/joB7OSrcMD
— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) July 11, 2022
Twitter went off on Mickey who is off his damn rocker if he thinks Tom Cruise is irrelevant, and ummm… what the hell is going on with his face?
His plastic surgeon took more heat than his awful Tom Cruise take:
Mickey Rourke looks like if you made Kato Kaelin out of Play-Doh https://t.co/jWmPtgkfU9
— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) July 11, 2022
Mickey Rourke's plastic surgeon. pic.twitter.com/Am90M5ensJ
— Kent Hanson (@GreenGiant71) July 12, 2022
Mickey Rourke looks like someone tried to make a Keith Urban cake on Nailed It https://t.co/TKWot0KwUY
— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) July 12, 2022
Imma tell my grandkids this was Mickey Rourke pic.twitter.com/0QYpOPcZp5
— Johnny Provolone🤌🏼 (@567HudsonSt) July 11, 2022
Mickey Rourke when someone tells him that Tom Cruise is a good actor: 🤡 pic.twitter.com/VxFUmP3F1J
— In My Mind (@MeAloneInMyMind) July 11, 2022
Mickey Rourke 's portrayal of Dog the bounty hunter is a bit over the top… https://t.co/u2nq49rDl3
— JWParks🇺🇲 (@JWParks_) July 11, 2022
Mickey Rourke looks like Brock Lesnar wearing a Val Kilmer costume https://t.co/zwow850iF2
— Liz Finnegan (@TheGingerarchy) July 11, 2022
Mickey Rourke is still making payments with @AfterpayUSA for his many, many surgeries. https://t.co/O6FN2lAclV
— 🇺🇦WhovianKate (@SpoonZoo_Meidas) July 12, 2022
That being said, the interview did take an emotional turn when Piers and Mickey started discussing the Russian invasion of the Ukraine.
“I wish some kind of little bell would ring in his head or his heart and he’d wake up and just stop all this sh*t.”
Mickey Rourke is overcome with emotion talking about the atrocities Vladimir Putin has caused since they met in 2014.@piersmorgan | @TalkTV | #MickeyRourke pic.twitter.com/fHhVdt6Umf
— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) July 11, 2022
And more is coming from that conversation:
To all those wondering what happened after I ran out of time & had to cut off that extraordinarily emotional interview with Mickey Rourke, I did what I’ve never done before & continued it after we came off air for 40ms. It got even more extraordinary. We’ll air it all on Friday. pic.twitter.com/zBZoM5zb71
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 11, 2022