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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
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http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2011/01/mickey-rourke-removing-front-teeth-to-play-gay-rugby-player
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A while back, I brought you the news that Mickey Rourke was interested in playing openly gay Welsh rugby player Gareth Thomas. Now comes word from his agent that Rourke is so serious about it that he’s considering having his two front teeth removed. Jesus, gay rugby sounds like a rough sport.
Wales on Sunday now says the Wrestler star is going to take out his teeth – as Thomas doesn’t have any front chompers – and wants to shoot the picture in Wales.
Thomas’ agent Emanuele Palladino told Wales on Sunday that Rourke wanted to be as faithful as possible.
He said, ‘Mickey wants to film everything in Wales, although it is early days.
‘He really wants to throw himself into Welsh and rugby and really learn as quickly as he can. He’ll learn Welsh I think, obviously where it is relevant as well.
‘He is going to get rid of his two front teeth and stuff – he will be taking them out.
‘Mickey intends to get as close to the character as he can, as he thinks it is a great story.’ [inmovies.ca]
Huh, I always thought Wales was closed on Sundays. Anyway, the difficulty here isn’t so much that Mickey Rourke will have to remove his teeth or learn Welsh, it’s more that Gareth Thomas is a 36-year-old professional athlete and Mickey Rourke is a clayfaced, 58-year-old, tiny-dog-loving party animal. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. In fact, more that I think about it, Gareth Thomas should be doing a biopic about Mickey Rourke. |
While I admire any actor's attempt to reach as deep into their character as possible, I have to wonder why he can't just use something like a blue screen mouthpiece or something.
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aeonic
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Frankly, I applaud him. I mean, it's likely he's had cosmetic work done to his teeth over the years (just as he's had bad facelifts and the like). It's that kind of dedication to his craft that makes him a real stand-out actor. If he'd been as good a boxer as an actor, he'd probably've been HWCW at some point.
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Who likes role-playing games? Me. Way too goddamn much. |
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i'll_bite_your_ear
Title: Distillatoria
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todays actors are really hardcore.
they pull themself through shit beyond imagination.
indeed respectable.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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Remember when Robert Downey Jr. made himself black for a role? That was super admirable. I don't understand why more people don't do that.
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FNJ
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it's more or a publicity stunt.
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Doddsino
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| i'll_bite_your_ear wrote: |
| todays actors are really hardcore. |
Yeah, I really commend both John Travolta and Nicolas Cage on doing an awesome job when they had surgery to wear each other's face. Not only did they also sound like one another, but they even got down every little mannerism to a T. Gotta respect them for going that far for the role.
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Klimbatize
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A few teeth? Pfffft. I think Fred Savage and Judge Reinhold get seriously overlooked for literally switching souls for Vice Versa. Now that was hardcore.
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aeonic
Title: Sporadic Poster
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Don't forget poor Marshall Bell in Total Recall. Not only did he have to transform into a crazy parasitic twin combo for the movie, but he was murdered in it too!
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Who likes role-playing games? Me. Way too goddamn much. |
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
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I think we need to consider some logic here.
1. Would you remove two front teeth for a movie roll that paid more than $1,000,000? Yes. I would.
2. Would you remove two front teeth for a movie roll that paid more than $1,000,000 if you already had more than $1,000,000? No, that seems dumb.
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Atma
Title: Dragoon
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| GPFontaine wrote: |
I think we need to consider some logic here.
1. Would you remove two front teeth for a movie roll that paid more than $1,000,000? Yes. I would.
2. Would you remove two front teeth for a movie roll that paid more than $1,000,000 if you already had more than $1,000,000? No, that seems dumb. |
This.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
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Well it's not like he's getting a shitty partial to replace them, he can probably afford some nice implants, something like this.
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Miguelius
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