Mickey Rourke is doing some promotional rounds for the DVD release of “The Wrestler,” and he sort of gave an interview to The Guardian, but it’s written like Mickey himself wrote it. I think it was an interview he gave, and the author just wrote it in Mickey’s voice. It’s called “What I Know About Women” and I suspect that Mickey knows enough about women to fill an encyclopedia series. But in this piece Mickey’s just talking about “the most important woman in his life,” his grandma, whether he was abusive to his second wife Carre Otis, and all of those young actresses he saw being victimized by the casting couch. Perhaps Mickey was hanging out with Megan Fox?

“My grandmother has been the most important woman in my life. I lost her about four months ago, at 99. She was incredibly well read, two books a week her entire life. She taught me the importance of being a gentleman, and how that will carry you a long way. She told me these things a million times, but maybe I didn’t listen hard enough. My brother Joe was just as fond of her. He called her four times a day his whole life. Joe died in my arms, but she still carried on speaking to him, via her Ouija board.”

“There’s definitely something called a casting couch. I did it the old-fashioned way: I went to acting school and broke my ass, studied hard. But if you take a girl from the Midwest with a pretty face, and instead of inviting them in for an audition in the morning, the directors invite them for dinner at night? That’s not going to wash in my house. I can recall with certain women, we’d go out, I’d park the car on Sunset, and by the time I’d got to the curb [sic] there’d be three or four producers handing them cards. That kind of thing makes me act a bit like Attila the Hun. There’s ways you get a job, and ways you get a job.”

“When I married Carré [Otis] that was all over the public eye. Her agent used a lot of our drama to try and further her career. Allegations were made [about domestic abuse] that were absolutely not true. Until recently, I have not even denied them. But the way I looked at the time, what was the use defending myself? I was looking at going to prison because I wouldn’t plead guilty to hurting her. You do the crime, you do the time, but if you didn’t do it, the last thing you’re going to do is plead guilty. That hurt my soul and it hurt my pride. It was a secret kind of hurt. A humiliation. We were both damaged goods.”

“Monogamy? I can’t wait. I don’t practice it, because I haven’t met the one I’d practice it with, but I believe in it absolutely. I’d join that club in a heartbeat.”

[From The Guardian]

I don’t know what to think about the Carre Otis stuff. They were both drinkers and drug abusers when they were together, and I remember hearing and reading a lot about how volatile their relationship was – on both sides. I wouldn’t doubt that Mickey was abusive to Otis, but I doubt he’s been violent to anyone since he got cleaned up.

In other Mickey Rourke news, he’s already started doing some advanced publicity for Iron Man 2. He admitted in a recent interview that he decided to learn how to speak Russian to play his evil character, Whiplash: “I decided to do half my role in Russian, and that’s hard because the Russian language doesn’t roll off the English-speaking tongue very easily. I spent three hours a day with a teacher, and after two weeks I know four sentences!” Unfortunately, somebody needs to tell Mickey that he‘s actually going all method-actor for a comic-book film sequel, because Mickey also told the press, “I’m not gonna rush out and see the next Batman, I’m not big on formula movies. I don’t like all that Spider-Man sh*t.” Jeez, I liked Iron Man and all (except for Goopy Paltrow) but those Batman movies are pretty good too. For shame, Mickey. You don’t have to tear down the comic-book competition just to promote the Iron Man sequel.

Here’s Mickey Rourke leaving Mr chow restaurant in Beverly Hills on April 23rd. Images thanks to WENN.com .