However, Rourke has criticized Marvel over the years since the movie came out. So, he was cast as the villain alongside Robert Downey Jr. Mickey Rourke, meanwhile, was coming off of The Wrestler, which earned him an Oscar nomination and revived his career. Respect to all of you,the work that you all do is real acting, not like that crap that all on Marvel s***."īack in 2010, the MCU was still in its relative infancy and wasn't the behemoth we know it as today. "What's especially enjoying is watching commodity of this exceptional group of actors.I guess if it wasn't this lockdown most likely i'd never see this show,but since i do all my lifting training in my living room my tv been on whole lockdown and i was able to discover this fabulous show. But At the very end of the rant, which was full of grammatical errors, Rourke decided to slip in a jab at Marvel. The actor says that he's watched "1000 of them" during that time and heaped praise on the various members of the cast, including Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni and BD Wong, among others.
Taking to Instagram, Mickey Rourke revealed that he had discovered SVU during lockdown. Peculiarly, the dig was stuffed into a long rant, in which, the Oscar-nominee was expressing his newfound love for Law & Order: SVU. Rourke, who himself starred as the main villain, Ivan Vanko, in 2010's Iron Man 2, expressed his distaste for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a recent Instagram post. Mickey Rourke has referred to Marvel movies as "crap" in a recent Instagram post.