{"id":4389,"date":"2009-01-13T19:17:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T19:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2009-01-14T00:47:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T00:47:45","slug":"interview-darren-aronofsky-and-mickey-rourke-on-the-wrestler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/01\/13\/interview-darren-aronofsky-and-mickey-rourke-on-the-wrestler\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Darren Aronofsky and Mickey Rourke on The Wrestler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrestlermovie.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4390\" title=\"Mickey Rourke and Darren Aronofsky filming The Wrestler\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/mickey-rourke-and-darren-aronofsky-filming-the-wrestler.jpg\" alt=\"Mickey Rourke and Darren Aronofsky filming The Wrestler\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrestlermovie.co.uk\/\">The Wrestler<\/a><\/strong> is a new film about an ageing wrestler &#8211; Randy &#8216;The Ram&#8217; Robinson (<a title=\"Mickey Rourke\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mickey_Rourke\">Mickey Rourke<\/a>) &#8211; past his prime, who struggles to make ends meet doing shows on the weekends in <a title=\"Elizabeth, New Jersey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth,_New_Jersey\">New Jersey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows him as he works in a deli, strikes up a relationship with a stripper\u00a0named Cassidy (<a title=\"Marisa Tomei\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marisa_Tomei\">Marisa Tomei<\/a>) and seeks a reconciliation with his estranged daughter (<a title=\"Evan Rachel Wood\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evan_Rachel_Wood\">Evan Rachel Wood<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I spoke with the director <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004716\/\">Darren Aronofsky<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000620\/\">Mickey Rourke<\/a><\/strong> back in October when the film played at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/lff\/\">London Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Darren_Aronofsky_and_Mickey_Rourke_on_The_Wrestler.mp3]\n<p>You can download this\u00a0interview\u00a0as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\">clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Wrestler\u00a0<\/strong>is out at UK cinemas on Friday 16th January<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Darren_Aronofsky_and_Mickey_Rourke_on_The_Wrestler.mp3\">Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004716\/\">Darren Aronofsky<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000620\/\">Mickey Rourke<\/a>\u00a0at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/film\/titles\/wrestler2008\">Read reviews of The Wrestler at Metacritic<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrestlermovie.co.uk\/\">Official UK site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Image: Niko Tavernise \/ Optimum Releasing \u00a9 2008]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wrestler is a new film about an ageing wrestler &#8211; Randy &#8216;The Ram&#8217; Robinson (Mickey Rourke) &#8211; past his prime, who struggles to make ends meet doing shows on the weekends in New Jersey. The story follows him as he works in a deli, strikes up a relationship with a stripper\u00a0named Cassidy (Marisa Tomei) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[745,138,746,2796,702],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}