I have to admit, Mickey Rourke may be a recovering alcoholic and ex-druggie among other things, but of all thing's he's honest. His story of falling from grace and back again is the latest media feel good story but there is a reason for it. He's real.
In a Time Magazine article this week he went against celebrity and star status type and put himself out there with answers to questions that made the man... Real.
He spoke of when he treated acting as a means to pay the bills:
"When you got bills to pay, you've gotta take a part that I would call a piece of crap. Then you just don't like yourself. That was when I really started to self-destruct. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man--that started it."
This guy doesn't deserve just an Oscar, he deserves a big fat A for being human.
