{"id":8723,"date":"2008-12-17T19:42:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T00:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8723"},"modified":"2013-02-13T08:52:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T13:52:39","slug":"rourke-on-bruce-springsteen-he-did-me-such-an-honor-such-a-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8723","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Rourke on Bruce Springsteen: &#8220;He did me such an honor, such a favor.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribecafilm.com\/news-features\/features\/The_Resurrection_of_Rourke_The_Wrestler.html\">Great interview with Rourke<\/a>.  I like the part when he gets overheated.  There&#8217;s that weird vulnerability he has in interviews &#8211; it&#8217;s startling because he looks like such a bruiser.  The story about Springsteen writing the song that rolls over the final credits is really cool:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>You were responsible for getting Bruce Springsteen to write the song for the end credits. How did that happen? <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>MR<\/strong>: After about six days, I knew something magical was happening on the movie. It gave me the gumption to write Springsteen a letter. I told him we had no money, but we shot it in New Jersey. And we even shot an extra scene in Asbury Park! He wrote back, and then five months later he called and said, \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Bruce,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and I said, \u00e2\u0080\u009cWho?\u00e2\u0080\u009d\u00e2\u0080\u0094I think I was on my Vespa\u00e2\u0080\u0094and he said, \u00e2\u0080\u009cBruce. Springsteen.\u00e2\u0080\u009d I was like, \u00e2\u0080\u009cOh fuck! Oh! OH!\u00e2\u0080\u009d He said, \u00e2\u0080\u009cI wrote you a little something.\u00e2\u0080\u009d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t think Darren had a clue what The Boss was all about. I took him to Giants Stadium\u00e2\u0080\u0094there were like 80,000 people there\u00e2\u0080\u0094and he was like, \u00e2\u0080\u009cHmmmm, they really like him.\u00e2\u0080\u009d So we go backstage, and Bruce picks up a guitar and plays the [song on an] acoustic guitar for us. It was the first time we heard it, and I was like, he\u00e2\u0080\u0099s got words to it and everything! Man, he really got it. He didn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t see the movie, he\u00e2\u0080\u0099d only read the fucking script, but the song sums up the whole character. He did me such an honor, such a favor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For some reason, the &#8220;he&#8217;s got words to it and everything!&#8221; brings a lump to my throat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great interview with Rourke. I like the part when he gets overheated. There&#8217;s that weird vulnerability he has in interviews &#8211; it&#8217;s startling because he looks like such a bruiser. The story about Springsteen writing the song that rolls over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8723\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,17],"tags":[1302,1303,291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8723"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64581,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions\/64581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}