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By the end of the shoot [of Wrestler], my trainer was pushing me up three flights of stairs to my house and holding my arm like I was an old cripple. I had three MRIs in the first two months of working on the film. I felt like it really was over by the time we started shooting the movie.

Mickey Rourke

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Mickey Rourke
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
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