VIDEO: Mickey Rourke - Robert Downey Jr. "Was Worse Than Me"
May 4 2010, Published 11:15 a.m. ET
Mickey Rourke acknowledged the irony of working with his Iron Man 2 co-star Robert Downey Jr. on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday, as both men have had incredible Hollywood comebacks after substance abuse issues sidetracked their careers for years.
Watch the clip here on RadarOnline.com
"It was funny because both of us got a second chance, and you don't get second chances a lot in life, especially in the movie business," Rourke said. "We both had two strikes, two-and-a-half strikes, really ... I think he was worse than me."
Rourke, whose career was reborn playing washed-up grappler Randy “The Ram” Robinson in 2008’s The Wrestler, recalled a morning on the film set where he was working out on a treadmill with a heavy vest, while Downey was practicing his Kung-Fu technique.
"We've come a long way," Rourke said. Years earlier, "I would have been showing up at noon, and he wouldn't even have been there!"
Iron Man 2 hits theaters Friday , May 7.
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