Mickey Rourke is reportedly being selective about his work projects despite ongoing financial troubles and an eviction battle at his Los Angeles home over unpaid rent.
Rourke’s manager, Kimberly Hines, revealed that the Oscar-nominated actor, 73 — who has rejected money from a $100,000 GoFundMe launched to prevent his eviction — has been getting a number of job offers in the past week, as per TMZ.
The offers range from indie films, photoshoots as well as live appearances and signings. Hines added that just in the last two days she’s received six offers for the actor.
But in spite of his recent financial woes and claims that he is living ‘paycheck to paycheck’, the former Hollywood heartthrob is reportedly not interested.
Hines said Rourke’s pride means he will only consider work that pays like an A-lister, in the range of $200,000 per day.
Rourke — who has worked opposite stars like Kim Basinger, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba and Benicio del Toro — is also intent on working with the same caliber of top-tier actors and directors he’s accustomed to.
Mickey Rourke, 73, is reportedly being selective about his work projects despite ongoing financial troubles and an eviction battle at his Los Angeles home over unpaid rent; Seen 2022
Hines added she believes that if Rourke prioritizes quality projects, the money will eventually come.
At the moment the actor is staying at a West Hollywood hotel with his three dogs. His manager revealed that he’ll be checking out at the end of the week, and has a new apartment lined up in Los Angeles.
Hines also shared that the money people donated to the $100,000 GoFundMe launched to help the actor will be returned to donors, after he slammed the effort as ‘humiliating.’
She added that Rourke should recognize there are people who genuinely want to help him.
The manager also believes Rourke has what it takes to get back to ‘being at the top again’ but will need to return back to work to get back on his feet.
Rourke’s faltering career was revitalized with his 2008 role in Darren Aronofsky’s drama The Wrestler, where he starred as Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson.
He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance and won a Golden Globe as well as a BAFTA award.
He would go on to act in Iron Man 2 (2010) and The Expendables (2010), but his career would fizzle out once again.
Other well-known films in his career include 9½ Weeks (1986), Angel Heart (1987) and Sin City (2005).
At the height of his career in the 1980s and early ’90s, Rourke was hailed as one of Hollywood’s most magnetic and unconventional leading men.
He earned a reputation for his brooding intensity and raw charisma, and gained respect for his serious role as the poet and alcoholic Charles Bukowski’s alter ego in the 1987 film Barfly.
But by the early ’90s, his career faltered after he stepped away from Hollywood to pursue professional boxing, leading to numerous injuries that would dramatically change his face.
Rourke’s manager, Kimberly Hines, revealed that the Oscar-nominated actor — who has rejected money from a $100,000 GoFundMe launched to prevent his eviction — has been getting a number of job offers in the past week, as per TMZ
But in spite of his recent financial woes the actor is reportedly not interested and will only consider work that pays in the range of $200,000 per day; Seen in 2008
Rourke — who has worked opposite stars like Kim Basinger, Evan Rachel Wood, and Bruce Willis — is also intent on working with the same caliber of actors and directors he’s accustomed to; Seen with Wood in 2008
The news of Rourke snubbing potential work offers comes two days after Hines insisted that the 100k GoFundMe campaign set up in his name to help prevent his eviction is valid despite the actor calling it ‘humiliating.’
Rourke was served a notice last month to pay $59,100 in back rent he allegedly owes on his Los Angeles property within three days, or risk eviction.
On Sunday, a fundraiser was launched by a woman named Liya-Joelle Jones, who said she works as an assistant to Rourke’s manager, Hines. Jones claimed the GoFundMe was created with Rourke’s ‘full permission.’
By Tuesday afternoon, the campaign raised $100,490 effectively surpassing its $100,000 goal.
However, on Monday night in an Instagram video shared to Rourke’s page, he insisted he’d never accept ‘charity’ — despite claiming the house had ‘rotten’ floors and was infested with rats — and he denied knowing about the fundraiser.
Later, his aforementioned manager Hines cleared up the speculation regarding the fundraising page and confirmed that it was created by his team and that all proceeds would go to the actor.
The manager also admitted that they had informed Rourke of the GoFundMe but may not have fully comprehended what was happening.
Hines told The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday: ‘“We said, “Mickey, there’s some people that want to help you out.” He’s like, “Okay, great.” I don’t think he understood, and now it’s taken on this media frenzy, and he flipped out.’
‘Nobody’s trying to grift Mickey. I want him working. I don’t want him doing a GoFundMe.’
She also said that she has since spoken with the actor since the charity effort was launched as she recalled what he said in their conversation: ‘Everyone’s calling me from all over the world and also asking me if I need money. I don’t know what to do.’
Hines said that in response, she told Rourke: ‘It’s okay. let them help.’
Rourke’s faltering career was temporarily revitalized with his 2008 role in Darren Aronofsky’s drama The Wrestler, where he starred as Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson; Seen in a still
He earned a reputation for his brooding intensity and raw charisma and became a heartthrob in the 1986 erotic romance 9 1/2 Weeks alongside Kim Basinger; They are seen in a promo image
Meanwhile, as Rourke denounced the crowdfunding effort on Instagram on Monday night, he was clad in a bright pink T-shirt as he said he was ‘confused’ and ‘frustrated’ by the situation, adding, ‘If I needed money, I wouldn’t ask for no f*****g charity. I’d rather stick a gun up my a** and pull the trigger.’
Speaking of ‘whoever did this,’ Rourke added, ‘I wouldn’t know what a GoFundMe foundation is in a million years. My life is very simple, I wouldn’t go to outside sources like that.’
He went on to call the campaign ’embarrassing’ but added, ‘I’m sure I’ll get over it like anything else.’
The actor — who’s said to be ‘rich poor’ and living ‘paycheck-to-paycheck’ — also reflected back on his career, stating he has ‘done a really terrible job’ in managing it.
‘I wasn’t diplomatic. I had to go to over 20 years of therapy to get over the damage that was done to me years ago. I worked very hard to work through that. I’m not that person anymore,’ he said.
He then urged his supporters not to donate to the campaign, and that if they donated to request a refund.
Rourke then shared that he is planning to speak to his lawyer about the situation.
The actor admitted that he did ‘borrow money from a great friend of mine’ amid his financial woes, and said he will eventually reveal who it was.
However, he insisted that he would ‘never ask strangers or fans or anybody for a nickel. That’s not my style.’
It comes after his manager insisted that the 100k GoFundMe campaign set up in his name to help prevent his eviction is valid despite the actor calling it ‘humiliating’
He also claimed that he stopped paying rent because his house has ‘mice’ and ‘rats,’ adding that the ‘floor is rotten’ and one bathtub and two different sinks get ‘no water.’
Rourke assured his fans that he was fine and concluded the clip by saying ‘get your money back,’ adding that he ‘wouldn’t do it this way. I got too much pride.’
The fundraiser went live online early Sunday with the title ‘Support Mickey to Prevent Eviction,’ with an adjacent caption playing up the entertainer’s decades in Hollywood in hopes of persuading potential donors to contribute in his reported time of need.
On Monday, it was reported the actor checked into an upscale hotel as he battles eviction from his Los Angeles home. He is reportedly staying at a star-favored West Hollywood hotel where rooms start at $550 a night, according to Page Six.
That same day, two men were also seen at Rourke’s home moving bags filled with clothes and a suitcase into a truck.
The GoFundMe was created after a landlord demanded Rourke settle up $59,100 in unpaid rent, or leave his home immediately, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Mail.
The Angel Heart actor was presented with a three-day notice to pay or leave on December 18, according to a legal complaint from plaintiff Eric T. Goldie.
Rourke, whose full name is Philip Rourke Jr., has resided in the three-bedroom Southern California home since March 30, at which time he inked a lease agreeing to pay monthly rent of $5,200.
Goldie said in the legal complaint, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court December 29, that the actor has ‘failed to comply with the requirements of’ the order he was given to settle up or move out.
Goldie also asked the court to force the actor to cover the legal costs he spent in trying to recoup the rent, and for Rourke to forfeit the remainder of the rental agreement.
At the start of 2026 Rourke shocked fans with his disheveled new look as he stepped out of his Los Angeles home with a shaved head and gaunt face just days earlier.
Rourke was served a notice last month to pay $59,100 in back rent he allegedly owes on his Los Angeles property; The actor pictured in 2009
The actor was seen on New Year’s Day bearing little resemblance to the hunky silver-screen image that once made him famous, as he picked up a Taco Bell delivery outside his home.
Rourke has previously admitted that his career is ‘in the toilet,’ blaming his notoriously short fuse for damaging relationships with directors – a pattern of behavior that played out once again during his turbulent reality show appearance.
He told The Sun this was why he had not been landing A-list movies, and that his short temper stopped him from booking ‘movies that have integrity.’
‘I’ve made mistakes, many, I have nobody to blame for my ship sinking except myself.’
The New York-born actor disclosed that he had broken his nose twice — which required five reconstructive operations — and smashed his cheekbone.
For years, Rourke’s face has attracted speculation, as many wondered if his varying looks were down to years of boxing or ‘bad surgery’.
