Mickey Rourke as James Tyrone?

In this post about Laurette Taylor and her comeback, MrG and I start to discuss Mickey Rourke in the comments, and the possibility of his giant comeback – which seriously, if it actually happens, will be like a man resurrecting himself from the dead. But we started to talk about what roles would be wonderful – in a perfect world – for him (we were thinking of the stage, primarily). I was leaning towards Tennessee Williams (mainly because of the Laurette Taylor connection) – but MrG brought up O’Neill, which struck me as really insightful – he’d be wonderful in any of O’Neill’s rough “plays of the sea”, where the characters are rough around the edges, tormented, macho, tender … all that crap that Rourke has going on in spades, but I have now decided that 10 years from now Mickey Rourke must play James Tyrone in Long Days Journey Into Night – BEAR WITH ME – (excerpt here) – just try to picture it, try to see it, and you will see how brilliant the idea is. Anyway, I’m going to fantasize about it with or without your permission. He couldn’t do it now, he needs to be in his 60s … but the thought of him playing that ruined bear of an actor, a man who sold out his divine talent to perform in TRASH only for the money, a man in denial about his own pain and his own contributions to his family’s pain … a man who can’t even deal with the fact that he ‘coulda been a contendah’ in the theatre, if he had just had the courage to not sell out … not to mention the man’s staunch Irish Catholicism, which Rourke also shares, and the battle with alcoholism … it’s all there.

Well, frankly, it must happen, that’s all.

I’m on it.

How else do you get things done in this universe except by putting the idea out there?? (Of course it would be wonderful if I could also do that for my OWN life, as opposed to focusing on what Mickey Rourke should be doing 10 years from now … but that’s besides the point. We all need our fantasies to get us through the dark moments, and I’m going to be fantasizing about an aging Mickey Rourke playing the bitter failed Irish patriarch if that’s all right with you.)

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2 Responses to Mickey Rourke as James Tyrone?

  1. David says:

    “Of course it would be wonderful if I could also do that for my OWN life, as opposed to focusing on what Mickey Rourke should be doing 10 years from now … but that’s besides the point.”

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

    You are fucking funny!!

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