{"id":24428,"date":"2012-11-01T21:41:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T01:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=24428"},"modified":"2012-11-01T21:41:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T01:41:32","slug":"dark-knight-mickey-rourke-more-eric-roberts-talks-of-his-career-life-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=24428","title":{"rendered":"Dark Knight, Mickey Rourke & More – Eric Roberts Talks of his Career, Life & More"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Exclusive Interview by \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTo sum it up in my opinion it\u2019s about a matter of fact, but it\u2019s an opinion about a matter of fact \u2013 artists aren\u2019t running the show anymore \u2013 lawyers are. Lawyers know as much about movie making as they do about kindness.\u201d\u2014Eric Roberts<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In 1978, at the age of ten years old, I went to see a movie with my late father Alvin Berkwitt. He loved movies and acted years before. He instilled in me a love for movies and more important, acting. The movie I saw was the KING OF THE GYPSIES. It was a fantastic movie that starred a then young 22 year old actor by the name of \u201cEric Roberts.\u201d He owned the character of \u201cDave,\u201d which my dad stressed to me. From that performance would come the rave reviews. In 1984, Eric would star opposite another fantastic actor by the name of \u201cMickey Rourke.\u201d The movie was the cult classic \u201cTHE POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the \u201cBook of Berkwitt,\u201d the Academy should have at least nominated Rourke for Best Actor and Roberts for Best Supporting Actor. I have read reviews where film critics panned Eric\u2019s performance as an act of overacting. Overacted? Watch him scream the words: \u201cCharlie, they took my thumb!\u201d When he screamed that line and passed out, I thought they cut my thumb off! It\u2019s a film classic, that almost 30 years, still holds up.<\/p>\n

Roberts may have not gotten nominated for THE POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE, but he did for his role as \u201cBuck McGeehy,\u201d in the 1985 hit movie, \u201cRUNAWAY TRAIN,\u201d losing to Don Ameche for COCOON.
\nI have rooted for both Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts who have had their ups and downs in Hollywood, but from my perspective, their talent never wavered. To see them both still acting and \u201cBringing It\u201d to their craft is impressive after 30 plus years.<\/p>\n

At this point of my lead-in, all I can do is steal a line that I totally concur with from Mickey Rourke\u2019s heartfelt speech from the Spirit Awards which he was awarded for his movie THE WRESTLER, a few years back: \u201cEric Roberts is the Fucking Man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ladies and Gentlemen, MR Eric Roberts with Special Guest MRS Eliza Roberts\u2026<\/p>\n

To Read this Exclusive Interview with Acting Legend Eric Roberts, click HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exclusive Interview by \u201cBad\u201d Brad Berkwitt \u201cTo sum it up in my opinion it\u2019s about a matter of fact, but it\u2019s an opinion about a matter of fact \u2013 artists aren\u2019t running the show anymore \u2013 lawyers are. Lawyers know as much about movie making as they do about kindness.\u201d\u2014Eric Roberts In 1978, at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32,7905,7904,7903,796],"class_list":["post-24428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-acting","tag-career-hollywood","tag-eliza-roberts","tag-eric-roberts","tag-mickey-rourke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24428"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}