Mickey Rourke recently reignited his old feud with co-star turned foe, Robert De Niro. Mickey shared a post on Instagram on Saturday where he pledged to embarrass the Goodfellas actor. He uploaded a classic photo of the 76-year-old actor smoking a cigarette and took a dig at him over his comments in the past about Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, The Irishman.
The 67-year-old began, “Hey Robert De Niro, that’s right i am talking to you, you big f–king crybaby (sic),” referring to De Niro's famous dialogue from Taxi Driver. “A friend of mine just recently told me that a few months back you’re quoted as saying to newspapers “Mickey Rourke’s a liar he talks all kind of shit,” continued Mickey. The alleged interview, however, was not cited by Mickey. Mickey added, “Listen Mr.Tough Guy in the movies, you’re the 1st person that ever called me a liar and it was in a newspaper. Let me tell you something, you punk ass, when i see you I swear to God on my Grandmother, on my brother and all my dogs, I gonna embarrass you severely 100%. Mickey Rourke as God is my witness (sic)."
However, Mickey deleted the post later on.
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File photo of Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro on the sets of Anegl Heart
The two have been embroiled in a feud since they starred together in the 1987 neo-noir drama Angel Heart. Mickey had accused De Niro for poor on-set behavior and also mentioned that his acting was poor.
Mickey had claimed in September 2019 that he was blocked from appearing in The Irishman because of De Niro. “Marty Scorsese, great director, he wanted to meet me for a movie with Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Chris Walken and Robert De Niro,” Rourke said on the Italian TV show, Live — Non è la D’Urso. “The casting person told my manager that Robert De Niro said he refused to work with me in a movie.”
De Niro’s rep, Stan Rosenfield, later responded to Rourke’s allegations. “According to The Irishman producers, Jane Rosenthal and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, and casting director Ellen Lewis, Mickey Rourke was never asked to be in The Irishman nor was he ever even thought of, discussed or considered to be in the movie,” Rosenfield previously told The Post in a statement, adding De Niro is “aware of these comments”.
(Source: Instagram)
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