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With Avengers: Endgame almost completing its 1 years of release, several unknown throwback incidents are coming to light! We know Robert Downey Jr wasn’t very happily welcomed when he first auditioned for Tony Stark, but one of his co-stars for Iron Man 2 was! However, things took a toll when he didn’t get his desired role and slammed director Jon Favreau for the same.
We’re talking about none other than Mickey Rourke who was initially offered to play the role of the main antagonist in Iron Man 2. His initial salary to play Ivan Vanko/Whiplash was $250000. Eventually, this pay was hiked but the role he got on-screen turned out to be disappointing. Despite several requests to director Jon Favreau, writer Justin Theroux, his role was cut, as he shared.
In a conversation with CraveOnline back in 2011, Mickey Rourke opened up about it all as, “I explained to Justin Theroux, to the writer, and to (Jon) Favreau that I wanted to bring some other layers and colours, not just make this Russian a complete murderous revenging bad guy. And they allowed me to do that. Unfortunately, the [people] at Marvel just wanted a one-dimensional bad guy, so most of the performance ended up the floor.”
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