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Eric Roberts: The Hollywood Interview

2 November 2009 10:23 AM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

(Eric Roberts in "Crash," above.)

Rediscovering Roberts

Eric Roberts never really left, but 2009 audiences are learning (or relearning) the charms of the actor Mickey Rourke has called the best he ever worked with.

By Terry Keefe

(This article is currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)

“Eric Roberts is the [expletive deleted] Man,” proclaimed Mickey Rourke at this past year’s Independent Spirit Awards, while accepting his trophy for Best Male Lead, at the very beginning of a speech which then saw him singling out Roberts, his one-time co-star in 1984’s The Pope of Greenwich Village, as someone who was worthy of a comeback like Rourke had with The Wrestler. From the audience, Roberts himself watched his friend at the podium with what looked to be a combination of embarrassment at being mentioned and some pleasure at the same, finally throwing it back at Rourke by shouting good-naturedly, “Accept your award!” For »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Discuss: When an Actor's Look Gets in the Way

22 October 2009 1:48 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Are you finding it increasingly harder to take the changing physicality of Hollywood actors?

Things change; they grow old, they morph, and sometimes even evolve. It's a fact of life, and usually a good fact of life. But lately, I find myself constantly having to try and ignore certain physical aspects to enjoy a trailer, an image, a film. Rather than absorbing the project, the mood, the plot, I'm trying to blur my eyes so Mr. or Ms. So-and-So doesn't look quite so silly.

On the one hand, of course, it's the plastic surgery. Practically everyone in Tinseltown does something. There's no way everyone has smooth foreheads and bright skin. But when the random nose job or improvement turns into new cheeks, chin, or balloonish lips until the original person is nowhere to be seen, it becomes too much. If this was happening to actors known for morphing into characters, »

- Monika Bartyzel

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DVD: Review:Homeboy

25 August 2009 10:01 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Mickey Rourke’s face somehow doesn’t look right without scars, bruises, wrinkles, and other ravages of age and abuse. In a world of pretty boys, he exudes the retro grit of John Garfield, though there’s plenty of Marlon Brando in his DNA as well. 1984’s The Pope Of Greenwich Village gave Rourke an opportunity to make a ’30s-style Warner Brothers crime drama; 1988’s simpatico Homeboy, which just received a tardy DVD release, let him shoot an equally anachronistic ’30s-style boxing movie. Rourke, who wrote the script under his “Eddie Cook” pseudonym, stars as a washed-up fighter ... »

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Rourke's Tribute To Roberts

21 February 2009 5:23 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Mickey Rourke paid a bizarre tribute to actor pal Eric Roberts at the Independent Spirit Awards - urging film makers to give him a chance and cast him in movies.

After taking to the stage to collect the Best Male prize for his role in the Wrestler, Rourke addressed Roberts in the crowd.

Referring to his own dramatic comeback, he begged directors to give Roberts - his co-star in 1984 movie The Pope of Greenwich Village and 2002's Spun - a similar second shot at fame.

He said, "I just want to say one thing about Eric Roberts. Eric Roberts is probably the best actor I have ever worked with. I don't know why, in the last 15 years, no one has given him the chance to show his s**t again."

Rourke then alluded to Roberts' 1987 arrest for harassing a woman and striking a police officer, by adding, "Whatever he did 15, 20 years ago should be forgiven.

"He deserves, like I got, a second chance.

"I wish there would be one god damn film maker in this room that would let him fly because the man is something else."

Roberts, red-faced, responded by yelling at Rourke to "accept your award". »

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2009 | 2007

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