Whether Downey has given Mickey advice, he's not saying.īut Mickey clearly wants to follow Downey's lead and regain control in his life.ĭowney owes much of his current balance to his wife, producer Susan Levin. "He made his choice and I'm sure it wasn't easy to say no." And be in control and go, 'What do I want to do? Do I want to be a really good human being and work, or do I want to fall in the gutter'? "It's really nice that he had the success in the first Iron Man and he's able to sort of grab his life and control it. "I can't think of very many people who have made it back like he did, because he didn't have a little drug problem, he had a big drug problem. He said: "I'm so happy with what's happening with him because usually if you have problems with drugs you end up like a garbage can. He even received a Best Actor Oscar nod for his role in 2008 film The Wrestler.īut Mickey reckons Downey's achievement outstrips his own. The 57-year old may never rediscover the looks ravaged by bad plastic surgery, but he has found the career that was lost to him. He laughs, a playful chuckle that masks 14 years of hurt that saw the golden boy fall to such a low place only his dogs saved him from suicide. "No," says a smiling Mickey, "Robert's problem was with drugs, mine was my temper - there was nothing for us to talk about."
So did the two Hollywood bad boys talk about their acting comebacks? He is very dangerous on the set because you never know what he is going to do."ĭowney, meanwhile, spent the 90s in a drug-induced haze and even served time in prison.īut they're now starring in what is set to be one of the films of the year - Iron Man 2, which is out on Friday.
Rourke - the 80s hearthrob of films such as 9½ Weeks, Angel Heart and Rumble Fish - had a temper that damaged his career so much he became a boxer.Īngel Heart director Alan Parker admitted: "Working with Mickey is a nightmare. A DECADE ago, putting Mickey Rourke and Robert Downey Jnr in a film together would have had Tinseltown bosses running for the Hollywood hills.
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