Actor Mickey Rourke hated ´The Wrestler´ character

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But Rourke was sure that he wanted to play troubled Randy Robinson in the movie to address his real life traumas.

"When I first read the script, I hated the character. I hated his guts, and I hated the side of him that was such a loser, the fact that he couldn't be accountable, or couldn't take care of his responsibilities. That's how I was for many years before I went to therapy," Rourke told in an interview to Wales Online "I misbehaved worse than anybody for over 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, until I went to therapy and realised I had to change. I'd become very hard...I came from a very violent background, I was very arrogant and proud, and when I went to therapy I realised that all of those things were just masking the issues I had in childhood, of abandonment and shame," the 'Sin City' star said.

Rourke still regularly visits his therapists to avoid a relapse.

"It's easier to walk around angry and hard than dealing with those issues that made me feel insignificant and small. I'm still working with this doctor, 14 years later now, to be honest with those issues. Back then, when I was raising all kinds of hell, I didn't know to fix it. Instead I just got harder and harder. Whereas now, I understand where it all came from," he added.

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