Mickey Rourke may not have been in any big movies in the last few years. But that hasn't stopped him from hitting out at one of Hollywood's biggest stars - Tom Cruise.
Thanks to the enormous success of his latest movie Top Gun: Maverick, Cruise is flying high this summer and winning praise from movie-goers and critics alike.
But there's one person who he clearly hasn't impressed; Oscar-nominee and ex-boxer Mickey Rourke.
During an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, the Iron Man 2 star spoke candidly about Cruise's smash hit movie. While quizzing him on success and fame, Morgan asked how Rourke felt when he saw "someone like Tom Cruise grossing a billion dollars with Top Gun: Maverick."
"That doesn’t mean s*** to me," Rourke replied, adding: "The guy’s been doing the same effing part for 35 years. I got no respect for that."
He went on to name-drop some of his personal acting icons, claiming: "I don’t care about money and power. I care about when I watch Al Pacino's work and Chris Walken and De Niro’s early work and Richard Harris’s work and Ray Winstone’s work. That’s the kind of actor I want to be like. Monty Clift and Brando back in the day."
Morgan continued to probe Rourke, asking him whether he at least considered Cruise "a good actor".
"I think he’s irrelevant, in my world," Rourke replied, to which Morgan responded simply: "Fascinating."
Since he first rose to fame as an actor-turned-boxer in the 80s and 90s, Rourke has dropped out of the limelight. Over the past two decades, he's only appeared in a few major movies, including The Expendables, Immortals, and The Wrestler, for which he won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe Award in 2009.
Meanwhile, the eccentric star is no stranger to controversy. Last year, he hit out at Marvel movies and the actors who star in them - despite having a starring role in the studio's 2010 flick Iron Man 2.
While praising Law & Order: SVU, Rourke gave a shout-out to the actors in the long-running crime drama. "Respect to all of you, the work that you all do is real acting, not like that c**p that all on Marvel s***."