8 People Who Hated Working For Marvel Studios

8. Mickey Rourke - Iron Man 2

For irascible old Mickey Rourke, it's par for the course to be completely honest about absolutely everything, even if that everything is the reason for your latest Hollywood rejection and subsequent career slump. Here's a particularly enlightening soundbite, about his 2011 film Passion Play: "Terrible. Another terrible movie."

Rourke reserved his most stinging judgement for Marvel Studios, however, and the producers that decided to take a punt on Rourke for Iron Man 2 after he made his comeback with The Wrestler. In Iron Man 2, Rourke plays villain Ivan Vanko/Whiplash, and it seems a lot of the preparation Rourke did for the film annoyingly came, in his eyes at least, to nothing.

"The people are Marvel just wanted a one-dimensional bad guy, so most of the performance ended up on the floor", Rourke later said in an interview with CraveOnline; he also insinuated that he was "working for the wrong studio", that director Jon Favreau "doesn't have any balls", and that Marvel movies are simply "mindless". Needless to say, Rourke and Marvel shall not be working together again.