Category: TV
Ent
Date: 27.05.2005
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Friday Night With
Jonathan Ross - 27 May, 91Èȱ¬ ONE (repeated 29 May, 91Èȱ¬ THREE)
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Maverick Hollywood actor and retired professional boxer
Mickey Rourke talks about the highs and lows of his
life with Jonathan Ross on Friday Night with Jonathan
Ross this Friday.
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Rourke, star of Sin City - which opens in the UK next
week - talks about his love/hate relationship with acting.
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"I disappeared. I just enjoyed doing other things
more. [Movies] got real tedious, real quick. I didn't know I'd be out
of work for 14 years.
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"If you have a big hit movie you can s**t in a
paper bag and it smells good, but I didn't have a big hit movie.
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"I've done a lot of things I'm not too proud of.
I have a lot of regrets."
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He also explains his passion for boxing: "I wanted
to do it one more time. I trained for five months, and it turned into
five-and-a-half years. [I enjoy] the preparation; getting down to a
certain weight."
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But it's a career that took its toll on his looks:
"I had five nose operations. good fighters beat the hell out of
you."
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And now he's enjoying his movie-making renaissance.
"I don't feel that I deserve a second chance - I just feel grateful."
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Jonathan also welcomes to the show Footballers' Wives
star Zoe Lucker, who explains why she's now left Tanya
behind her: "When you play a character that's so big, I've got
to be careful that I don't ruin it for the rest of my career - a lot
of type-casting goes on."
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She's now about to star in new drama Bombshell, for
which she underwent serious training: "I went to boot camp for
three days. We did the full squaddie run, orienteering, all the tasks
- it was hard work. I held guns but didn't actually fire them."
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However, she also reveals that she hates the gym: "I've
got a running machine at home. I'm very self-conscious about exercise.
I find it really embarrassing, which is why I don't attend a gym . [but]
I do sit-ups in the nude."
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There's also chat with drop-dead gorgeous ER medic Goran
Visnjic and Jay Kay - who also performs new
single, Feels Just Like It Should, live in the studio with Jamiroquai.
