F’bombs and everything, this speech was easily the highlight of the night. Heartfelt, funny, trainwreck-y, everything you love about Mickey Rourke. We, so some of us, were on the fence about who would win the Oscar tomorrow [ed. I follow the guilds too closely sometimes], but it really seems that the community has totally embraced him. We’re changing out pick for Best Actor to Mickey. “The Wrestler” wasn’t our favorite film of the year, but we did like it a lot and it’s nice to see it win the major love of the night with three awards and two of the biggest.
Notice though that he didn’t thank Evan Rachel Wood?
Maybe this coupled with Eric Roberts appearance in the biggest movie of the year, Dark Knight, and his upoming one in The Expendables, will poise him for a comeback. Is that a good thing I wonder 🙂