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Newsday.com has got an interview with Mickey Rourke who stars in The Wrestler. Here are a few excerpts from the interview:

Interview: Mickey Rourke On What Wrestler He Tried to Look Like, Getting “The Rock” To See His Movie, Meeting Piper, & Learning High Spots

On getting into shape to play Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson:

“It was a process over six months of putting on the weight. I had to put on muscle and not fat and I had never done that before. I’ve had to lose weight – 20 pounds over 12 weeks. And I thought that was murder. So, I thought, ‘Oh great, I get to eat.’ You just can’t eat anything or you’re going to put fat on. But you’re going to put fat on anyway because you’re eating six or seven meals a day. You have to make sure you’re doing the weight lifting and the cardio, so it’s like never ending in the gymnasium for me. I have to admit, since I’ve done the movie, I haven’t walked into a gym. I’ve just done weights at home. I just can’t go to a gym yet, because it was hell…

Asked, by me, if he was trying to go for a certain wrestler’s look:

“Yeah, like Lex Luger. And then when we Googled him, we were surprised to see how he ended up.”

On whether he saw similarities between Luger and ‘The Ram,’ and how common the character’s story is in real life:

“Well, from what we Googled, yeah [Luger ended up a lot like “The Ram.”] We stopped at a certain point. You know, we’ve showed this movie around a bit and we had a screening out in LA about three weeks ago. And during the question and answer period, Darren Aronofsky says, ‘I hear that Roddy Piper is in the audience.’ Darren tells me who Piper is and how he’s a great wrestler and icon from the 80’s. And then he says, ‘Are you here in the audience?’ And then we hear, ‘Yeah, I’m here.’ It was the first time I heard [Darren] stutter. He says, ‘W-well what did you think of the movie? Did you like it? Did you hate it? Do you have anything to say?’ Then there was a silence again. Then we hear, ‘Yeah, I’ve got a lot to say.’ And we’re both looking at each other like, ‘Oh f—-.’ This is the true… This is the real deal. This isn’t somebody from our camp. And he went on to pay us like highest compliments that we could wish for. And actually he got a little emotional about it. And it was kind of like, it was hard holding this guy and hearing him and talking back to him and understanding where he’s been – the journey that he’s been on and all the others that were like him. Because when your time has come and gone and that’s the only thing you know, you can’t go and be a godd— bus boy somewhere. You just can’t do it. And the options aren’t a lot. And it’s not very pretty.” More on the interview>>>>>>>>