Mickey Rourke NOT a Tom Cruise Fan Despite 'Top Gun: Maverick' Success: 'Irrelevant!'
Mickey Rourke said Tom Cruise is "irrelevant" to him despite the actor's success story in the industry.
As one of the veteran actors in the industry, Cruise has already established his own empire some actors have not reached before. Although he has a huge fandom, Rourke refused to be part of it.
Rourke recently appeared on the TV show, "Piers Morgan Uncensored" in which he shared his impressions of Cruise and his "Top Gun: Maverick" box-office success. For what it's worth, the sequel became Cruise's biggest movie after surpassing the $1 billion mark worldwide.
However, the "Iron Man 2" star was not impressed by that as he got no respect for something Cruise has been repeatedly doing for 35 years.
"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 wanna be like, Monty Clift and Brando back in the day. A lot of guys that just tried to stretch as actors," he told Morgan.
The former "Good Morning Britain" presenter then asked him if he thinks Cruise is a good actor. Rourke, immediately, said that the multi-awarded actor is irrelevant in his world.
Cruise and Rourke arrived in the industry almost at the same time.
The 60-year-old "Edge of Tomorrow" actor landed different roles since his big break in the 1980s. He famously appeared in "War of the Worlds," "Mission: Impossible" franchise, "Risky Business," and "All the Right Moves."
Meanwhile, Rourke starred in "Body Heat" and "9 ½ Weeks" when he also started in the 1980s.
Cruise has not responded to Rourke's statement, yet.
Mickey Rourke Details Childhood Abuse
Aside from talking about Cruise, Rourke also presented himself to the viewers and recalled the abuse he went through as a kid.
Per the actor, he suffered extreme abuse when he was 14, prompting him to make a tough choice.
"There comes a time ... when you're living in shame. That's it. There's nothing worse than that. So you got two choices: You either live in shame, and you will become like a broken soul a broken person, or you get hard and I chose to get hard. Not by choice, just by survival," he said.
He also spoke about how he messed up everything he worked hard to accomplish and how he blames himself for that.
For 23 years, he underwent therapy that made him realize that the people he chose to be with impacted his career.
