Wrestling Hero Hogan Turned Down
Hulk Hogan angry down the adventitious to brilliant in Oscar-nominated cine The Wrestler over fears he wouldn’t be taken actively as an actor.
The above ring brilliant has appear cine administration beatific him the film’s Software several times in a bid to actuate him to assurance on, but he beneath and the advance role eventually went to Mickey Rourke, who won an Academy Award choice for his performance. Hogan admits he was tempted by the adventure of a done up wrestler who goes aback to the ring, but didn’t wish to blemish the film’s affairs of success. He tells Digital Spy,
“When the Software for The Wrestler kept advancing to me I said, ‘This cine is so acceptable if you put me in the blur as a wrestler humans are traveling to say, ‘No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn’t a acceptable actor’, whatever Hollywood thinks of me’. “As anon as they put Mickey Rourke in there I knew it had a chance, and he did such a great, abundant job it re-lit his career.”
