FILM I MASCULINITY
Mickey Rourke — The Human Being in a Monster’s Body
The peculiar victory of self-destruction in Hollywood
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9 min readFeb 8, 2021
Nowadays, Mickey Rourke resembles an old, beaten-up pit bull. He’s ragged, physically deformed, but still standing. Come boxing, alcohol and drug abuse, mental demons, and more than a decade of loneliness, nothing could knock out…
