Low-cut t-shirt, prominent tattoos on chest and arms, low-rise jeans, bare stomach, mirrored glasses, helmet and boxing gloves in hand. This is how one was photographed in Los Angeles myths of the 1980s which in those years made everyone dream and aroused not a little envy from everyone.
The sex symbol of the eighties
There is a clue in his looks that allows us to clearly recognize him as he has transitioned from cinema to professional wrestling since the 90’s only to dominate Hollywood in the early 2000’s. It’s about Mickey Rourke.
The former sex symbol was photographed in Los Angeles carrying his boxing gear to his girlfriend’s apartment. Rourke was seen hugging a long-haired blonde wearing a white tank top and jeans.
Mickey Rourke, who drove everyone insane in Nine and a Half Weeks, is returning to cinema soon. In fact, Hunt Club, an action thriller filmed primarily in Mississippi, has finished filming. The film, directed by Elizabeth Blake-Thomas, sees Rourke among the protagonists as well Mena Suvarifamous for his participation in the American Pie saga and in American Beauty.
Hunt Club, the plot
Hunt Club has a very compelling story. In fact, it tells of a group of men who manage a private island where they lure women with promises of giving the prize of to the winner of a hunt $100,000. But at some point something is wrong with the three women, the protagonists of the film. In fact, they are not who they say they are and will devise a plan to make the group of men pay for all the evils they have committed in the past.
Mickey Rourke, a difficult career
Among the most famous films starring Mickey Rourke we remember Rusty the Savage (1983), Year of the Dragon (1985), 9 1/2 Weeks (1986), Angel Heart – Lift to Hell (1987) , Sin City (2005), The Wrestler (2008), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and won a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Independent Spirit Award, and The Mercenaries – The Expendables (2010).
Despite a tumultuous off-screen life, he has managed to present himself as a niche actor in recent decades, mainly in the roles of an outcast anti-hero, with a rough and lonely character.
Who is Mena Suvari?
The other protagonist of Hunt Club, Mena SuvariShe had a similar career to Rourke, through ups and downs. She was born in 1979 and rose to fame in 1999 for playing Angela in American Beauty opposite Kevin Spacey. The performance earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress. That same year, she played the role of Heather in American Pie, a role she will retain in the sequels. Then the slow decline. In a 2021 book The Great Peace: A Memoir, she confessed to being a drug addict and to being sexually abused.