Deliver a great performance in a critically hailed film, get the Oscar talk buzzing, push up your Standard & Poor’s rating and wait for a big paycheck opportunity. Winning the Best Actor Oscar is a very nice reward — pop the champagne, hug your mom, etc. — but the career revival and a big paycheck job is the real booty-boo. That’s what Mickey Rourke‘s reported role in Iron Man 2 is. Speculation is that he’ll play a tattooed villain called the Crimson Dynamo.
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