Mickey Rourke Type?Among the roles advertised by casting agents for Bruce McDonald's action-packed film noir Claire's Hat (about a diamond-smuggling scheme gone bad) were:
full of shit Claire, a downsized stockbroker who is embroiled in a dangerous diamond-smuggling scheme
full of shit an innocent French-Canadian runaway for whom Claire is mistaken
full of shit a "Mickey Rourke type" to play one of the nasty diamond-smugglers
Gina Gershon snagged the stockbroker role (and did all her own stunts); Juliette Lewis won the role of Claire. And who answered the call for the "Mickey Rourke type"? Why, Mickey Rourke of course!
[Trivia: Rourke once worked in a whorehouse, in a massage parlor on 42nd Street, and (as a bouncer) in a transvestite club in L.A.]
Rourke, Mickey [born Philip Andre Rourke Jr] (1950- ) American actor [noted for Body Heat (1981),
Diner (1982),
The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984),
Year of the Dragon (1985),
Nine and a Half Weeks (1986), and
Wild Orchid (1990)]
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