Watch This: Mickey Rourke Cursing, Accepting Spirit Award

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on February 22, 2009

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By now you’ve heard — perhaps via our indisputably successful live-blog of yesterday’s Independent Spirit Awards — that Mickey Rourke’s acceptance speech for his Best Male Lead award was mildly entertaining. And for those of you who were not able to catch it live on IFC, I feel some hint of pity. Therefore I am happy to bring you the following video of Rourke’s speech, complete with a call-out to his dead dog and his demanding of the resurgence of Eric Roberts.

See for yourself below.

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ANGRYBROOMSTICK

I freakin LOVE Rourke so much... he truly deserves an Oscar. he's always been the underdog for so many years.

ERoBB

What a cool goddamn guy. I really hope he gets the Oscar, that performance was incredible.

Voltron

he's such a badass

DMuff

Rourke is the shit, the wrestler was awesome and mostly because of his performance, I will be surprised if he doesn't take home the little bald bronze man.

John Strickland

Eric Roberts IS the fuckin' man. Truer words may have never been said.

AND... they were said by Mickey Rourke.

Raymond

thats an acceptance speech

790

Rourkes the man for sure!
Loved the Wrestler !!!

TDC

Rourkes a phenomenal actor! Roberts and he worked together on The Pope of Greenwich Village back in the day - and they got on like a house on fire!

Penn was superb in Milk, but it's a real shame that Rourke didn't get the little golden man - The Wrestler is such a performance!

TDC

Aleric

That is how you talk shit at an awards show. Compliment people will hurling the F bomb. Unfortunately the rest of Hollywood is too busy smelling their underarms to see if they might offend someone.

flameyheadgear

That Mickey Rourke is a genuine badass who centers his life and love around a teacup dog and doesn't give a fuck who knows it is reason enough to love him.