Mickey Rourke was “never even thought about” for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, its producers have said, despite Rourke’s claims that he was rejected for the film because of his long-running feud with star Robert De Niro.
I lived that f**king life, so every time I look him in the face I look right through his a**hole”.
Rourke and De Niro have allegedly disliked each other since they worked together on the 1987 film Angel Heart, with Rourke explaining on Non e la D’Urso that “I don’t look up to him no more; I look through him.
In The Irishman, De Niro plays former hitman Frank Sheeran as both an 80-year-old and a 24-year old – and it was this task that caused the film to become the most expensive that Scorsese has ever worked on. The film’s limited theatrical run will start on 1 November before its Netflix premiere on 27 November.