With Mickey Rourke basically a lock to win Best Actor for his performance in The Wrestler, the only lingering mystery around this weekend’s Oscar ceremony is who he’ll bring as his date. So, when we ran into him at last night’s Domenico Vacca show at Bryant Park (this is Rourke’s first Fashion Week in thirteen years, if you can believe it), we asked him to spoil that surprise, too. Since it won’t be his Chihuahua, who will accompany Rourke to the Kodak Theatre on Sunday? “Unfortunately, my agent,†he told us in defeat.
But so what if ICM’s David Unger doesn’t look good in a dress — at least he’s battling Marvel for a bigger paycheck for Rourke for his rumored role as a villain in Iron Man 2, right? “Right now, we’re not doing Iron Man 2,†Rourke told us grimly.
But so what if ICM’s David Unger doesn’t look good in a dress — at least he’s battling Marvel for a bigger paycheck for Rourke for his rumored role as a villain in Iron Man 2, right? “Right now, we’re not doing Iron Man 2,†Rourke told us grimly.
We only had time for one last question, so we asked who torpedoed Rourke’s plans to actually wrestle at WrestleMania, him or his publicist? Since his flack answered for him (“We don’t need to talk about thatâ€), and then pulled him away, we’re going to assume that it wasn’t Rourke.