Mickey Rourke wants his “good friend” Sean Penn to scoop the Best Actor gong at this year’s Academy Awards – because the Milk star helped him get his life back on track when he hit rock bottom battling drug addiction in the 1990s.
Comeback king Rourke and Penn are both competing for the same award at the upcoming cereomy: Mickey, for his role as Randy “The Ram” Robinson in The Wrestler; Sean, for his portrayal of openly gay politician Harvey Milk in the biopic Milk.
And Rourke is adamant he wants his rival to triumph at the Oscars.
“Sean Penn is a good friend of mine,” the actor says. “When I was down and out, he got hold of me and told me exactly what to do and not to do. I owe him so much that I hope he wins the award.”
Mickey, 56, also revealed his aspirations to be as successful as Al Pacino.
He said, “I wanted to be as big as Al Pacino. I thought my acting ability was enough so I didn’t play by the rules, I ignored all the politics, I upset people and in the end I lost everything.
“Now I am back and I am going to stay with this work ethic until I die.”
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