Here is a small snippet of Alfonso Castillo's interview in NEW YORK NEWSDAY

with the Golden Globe nominated star of "The Wrestler," Mickey Rourke. Some fascinating stuff.

Be sure to check out the entire interview.

 

Asked, by me, if he was trying to go for a certain wrestler’s look:

“Yeah, like Lex Luger. And then when we Googled him, we were surprised to see how he ended up.”

On whether he saw similarities between Luger and ‘The Ram,’ and how common the character’s story is in real life:

“Well, from what we Googled, yeah [Luger ended up a lot like “The Ram.”] We stopped at a certain point. You know, we’ve showed this movie around a bit and we had a screening out in LA about three weeks ago. And during the question and answer period, Darren Aronofsky says, ‘I hear that Roddy Piper is in the audience.’ Darren tells me who Piper is and how he’s a great wrestler and icon from the 80’s. And then he says, ‘Are you here in the audience?’ And then we hear, ‘Yeah, I’m here.’ It was the first time I heard [Darren] stutter. He says, ‘W-well what did you think of the movie? Did you like it? Did you hate it? Do you have anything to say?’ Then there was a silence again. Then we hear, ‘Yeah, I’ve got a lot to say.’ And we’re both looking at each other like, ‘Oh f----.’ This is the true… This is the real deal. This isn’t somebody from our camp. And he went on to pay us like highest compliments that we could wish for. And actually he got a little emotional about it. And it was kind of like, it was hard holding this guy and hearing him and talking back to him and understanding where he’s been – the journey that he’s been on and all the others that were like him. Because when your time has come and gone and that’s the only thing you know, you can’t go and be a godd--- bus boy somewhere. You just can’t do it. And the options aren’t a lot. And it’s not very pretty.”