- Fans of Tom Cruise were outraged lately when Mickey Rourke dubbed the Top Gun actor “irrelevant” during a debate with Piers Morgan on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
- Morgan asked Rourke how he felt seeing “Cruise at the top of the movie office charts with Top Gun: Maverick” on Monday.
“That doesn’t mean (expletive) to me. The guy’s been doing the same part for 35 years. I got no respect for that,” remarked the Iron Man 2 actor.
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He continued,
“I don’t care about money and power. I care about when I watch Al Pacino work and Chris Walken and De Niro’s early work and Richard Harris’s work and Ray Winstone’s work. That’s the kind of actor I want to be like. Monty Clift and Brando back in the day.”
To this end, Morgan inquired, “You don’t think Tom Cruise is a good actor?”
“I think he’s irrelevant in my world,” replied Rourke.
Following this interview, some fans rushed to Twitter to call Rourke out for his derogatory remarks.
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Meanwhile, netizens mocked his plastic surgery, saying, “He looks like he’s trying to become Val Kilmer.”
