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Video: “The Wrestler” at the New York Film Festival

"If I knew it was going to take me 15 years to get back in...

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Posted October 02nd, 2008, 5:10 PM by IFC

“If I knew it was going to take me 15 years to get back in the saddle and work again because of the way I handled things, I really would have handled things differently… Change, for me, didn’t come easily. I didn’t want to change, until I lost everything.” Mickey Rourke’s role as faded professional wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson in “The Wrestler” is rightly being hailed the comeback, and one of the best performances, of the year. At the film’s U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival, he, co-star Marisa Tomei and director Darren Aronofsky (“Requiem for a Dream”) discussed what drew them to a wrestling picture and what goes into training to act as a wrestler (or, for Tomei, a stripper) on screen.

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