“The Wrestler” actor Mickey Rourke was spotted out and about in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon. I thought those glasses deserved a post of their own.

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Director Tarsem Singh has recently had the opportunity of working with some of Hollywood greatest actors, and he spoke about filming with Julia Roberts on his Snow White project and Mickey Rourke in the November 11 release flick, Immortals.

Tarsem says that even though the two actors play evil characters in their respective films, their approach to their roles were much different. While Julia had a hard time getting to that point of nastiness, Mickey would embrace it and go full force:

“No, actually [Julia Roberts] would play this person and completely come down. She would be really mean to Lily and I remember every time I turned around, she said, ‘That’s like being nasty to Bambi. You just can’t do it.’ So people deal with it differently.”

“A person like Mickey would be like, ‘I think Bambi steak would be good.’ Deal with different things differently. There’s just a certain amount of crawliness that comes into a guy like that who can’t see very well, he’s not wearing any glasses, he’s got a contact in one eye and you’ve given him a spear and he’s holding it next to a girl’s eye. Just like having a child on set, a very big child.”

Bambi steak?! My childhood just died a little.

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Earlier this week at an after party for ‘Scream 4′, Mickey Rourke firmly placed his foot in his mouth when talking about his upcoming movie ‘Passion Play’ costarring Megan Fox.

Here’s the interview with Vulture:

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Mickey Rourke stepped out in New York City on Saturday sporting some spandex! The actor’s newest movie ‘Passion Play’ starring Megan Fox went straight to DVD. Poor Mickey.

Maybe the actor is getting into shape for his new movie, in which he’ll play Welsh rugby player Gareth Thomas. ‘I’m not in my prime any more but as an actor I need to look like I can play rugby’, Rourke recently said in a BBC interview.

Thomas, who now plays rugby league for the Crusaders, confirmed in 2009 that he was gay, becoming the first professional team athlete to be open about being homosexual.

Rourke became friends with the athlete after reading about the former Wales rugby union captain in an article and his interest in Thomas led him to want to create the film.

As part of the actor’s transformation for the drama, he is said to be putting on a Welsh accent and losing his two front teeth.

Gareth Thomas’s manager, Thomas Palladino, gave WalesOnline an update on the film, saying: ‘Mickey wants to film everything in Wales, although it is early days.

He really wants to throw himself into Welsh and rugby and really learn as quickly as he can.

‘He’ll learn Welsh I think, obviously where it’s relevant as well. He is going to get rid of his two front teeth and stuff – he will be taking them out.

‘Mickey intends to get as close to the character as he can, as he thinks it is a great story.’

Rourke said of learning the accent: ‘Everyone told me how tough the Welsh accent was going to be so I’ve started listening to the London accent and the Welsh accent for help but I’m getting nowhere.’

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Mickey Rourke announced yesterday on a British chat show that he’s prepping a biopic of Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas, who came out of the closet to much fanfare a year ago. “To be a man who plays rugby, who is gay, and to live with that secret for the amount of years that Gareth had, to perform at the high level that he performed at, it takes a lot of courage,” said Rourke.

What do you think of this casting?

Actor Mickey Rourke’s bodyguard escorts him as he heads to the hotel he has been staying at in New York City.

Any Mickey Rourke fans out there? What’s your favorite movie of his?

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