Q: What made you want to act in “The Wrestler?”
A: “I would say the day that I met Darren Aronofsky, he was really forthright and honest with me. He says, ‘Look, you’ve fucked up your whole career for 15 years, you’re a great actor but everybody’s afraid of you. I’ve got a movie and I want to do it with you.’ And he goes like this: ‘I want you to hear me: you have to listen to everything I say, you have to do everything I tell you, you can’t go out all night long, you can’t disrespect me and I can’t pay you.’ I thought, he must be really fucking good to have the balls to say that to me.”
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