We've got some ideas...
So, as promised, we saw The Wrestler, and...damn. It's hard for an actor to upstage Marisa Tomei being half-naked for half a movie, but Mickey Rourke does it. He is unbelievable, and well deserving of his Golden Globe. So the question is, where does Mickey go from here? The web is buzzing about him being a villain in Iron Man 2 and some dumb new Stallone action flick, but frankly, after that performance, both choices leave us a little cold. Problem is, there aren't many movies Mickey Rourke can star in, because...well, because of Mickey Rourke's face. Long past his sex-symbol days, now he's just too broken-down and time-ravaged for leading-man roles, except in a movie about a guy who's broken-down and time-ravaged. But there's always TV, the medium of James Gandolfini and Michael Chiklis.There's no reason Rourke couldn't do great work as a complex television antihero, you know, the type of guy Joshua Alston of Newsweek thinks there are too many of already. Shhhh, Alston, there's room for one more. And here are some ideas for TV leading-man roles for Mickey Rourke:
1) Worn-down, busted-up parolee adjusting to life on the outside.
2) Worn-down, busted-up hired assassin.
3) Worn-down, busted-up drug addict, trying to keep his family and career together.
4) Worn-down, busted-up undercover cop.
5) Worn-down, busted-up Gossip Girl.
Okay, maybe the last one not so much. But you get the idea.
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