FILM I MASCULINITY

Mickey Rourke — The Human Being in a Monster’s Body

The peculiar victory of self-destruction in Hollywood

Mickey Rourke in Tiger (2018). Photo: R3M Productions

Nowadays, Mickey Rourke resembles an old, beaten-up pit bull. He’s ragged, physically deformed, but still standing. Come boxing, alcohol and drug abuse, mental demons, and more than a decade of loneliness, nothing could knock out…