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>I was approached three times to do the movie The Wrestler, that Mickey Rourke part, and I kept telling them if I did it, the film would suck.
>I did a movie called No Holds Barred about a wrestler, my first movie with New Line Cinema. It did incredibly well, made for $3 million and did about $50 million, which for a low budget movie is unheard of. So I did two other films with New Line Cinema - Suburban Commando and Mr Nanny, low budget films that made a lot of money.
>When the script for The Wrestler kept coming to me
I said, 'This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor, whatever Hollywood thinks of me'. As soon as they put Mickey Rourke in there, I knew it had a chance, and he did such a great, great job it re-lit his career.
