ScreenRant has your first look at Oscar-nominated actor Mickey Rourke as the villain “Whiplash” in the superhero action flick Iron Man 2.

Whiplash, along with The Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), will take on Iron Man in the eagerly-awaited sequel to last summer’s box office smash, due in theaters May 7, 2010.

Mickey Rourke made it to WrestleMania after all. The Wrestler actor Mickey Rourke returned to the ring to take on WWE superstar Chris Jericho at WrestleMania 25 on Sunday night–and the outcome was a TKO.

A feud has been brewing between the Oscar-nominated star and Jericho for weeks, with the wrestler calling out the actor’s friends, wrestling legends Ric Flair, Roddy Piper and Ricky Steamboat, at previous WWE events.

Roddy, Rick and Ricky climbed into the ring joined by fellow WWE Hall of Famer Jimmy Snuka to defend Mickey, but they were defeated by Jericho before Mickey’s entrance.

The Golden Globe winner then removed his cowboy hat and entered the ring, punching out Jericho during the event at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, The Hollywood Reporterreports.

Megan Fox has signed on to star alongside Mickey Rourke in the upcoming independent drama Passion Plays.

According to The Hollywood Reporter’s “Risky Business Blog,” the actress has been tapped to play an angel who provides redemption for Rourke in 1950s Los Angeles.

Mickey Rourke has proposed to a former Russian boxer.

In this week’s edition of The Globe, Irson Kudikova, who is now a pop star in the former Soviet nation, reveals that The Wrestler star asked her to marry him during a recent trip to Russia, where he’s researching his role as a villain in the upcoming Iron Man sequel.

“He told me, ‘You’re a fantastic woman. I want to marry you.’”

Mickey Rourke will attend WrestleMania 25.

After Mickey pulled of a scheduled Wrestlemania match-up with Chris Jericho last month, the star challenged WWE Hall of Famers Jimmy Snuka, Roddy Piper and Ricky Steamboat, who are friends of the Oscar-nominated star of The Wrestler, to a match at the big 25th anniversary of the WWE event.

Mickey’s friends have decided to confront Chris on his behalf, and Mickey says he’ll be in attendance to watch how the drama unfolds.

WrestleMania 25 goes down April 5 at the Reliant Stadium in Houston, TX.

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“Scarlett is thrilled to be a part of Iron Man,” the actress’ Marcel Pariseau said Thursday.

Iron Man 2 is scheduled for release in May 2010.

Mickey Rourke didn’t pick up a statue at the Academy Awards on Sunday, but he’s still going to get his very own Oscar — an adopted Chihuahua to replace his beloved dog Loki who recently passed away.

“Mickey has other dogs but he misses Loki terribly,” a friend of the star tells RadarOnline.com. “He doesn’t want to wait long either — he wants to get his new pooch this week. The new dog won’t replace Loki but by naming it Oscar, Mickey says he’ll make his comeback year even more special.”

The 56-year-old actor,who was named Best Actor for his role in The Wrestler at the ceremony on Saturday, reportedly lunged at a disgusted Jessica, 27.

“He was standing near her and reached over to feel her up. She jumped back and made a disgusted face,” a source told the New York Daily News newspaper.

Mickey and Jessica co-starred in sexy 2005 movie Sin City.

Mickey Rourke went to the “wrong guy” for plastic surgery.

The actor, who was nominated for Leading Actor Academy Award for the 2008 film The Wrestler, who boxing professionally after the collapse of his Hollywood career in 1991.

The sport left him with bruises, cuts, and a multitude of other injuries that had to be cosmetically corrected.

“Most of it was to mend the mess of my face because of the boxing, but I went to the wrong guy to put my face back together,” the 54-year-old admits.

He says, “I had my nose broken twice. I had five operations on my nose and one on a smashed cheekbone.”

“I had to have cartilage taken from my ear to rebuild my nose and a couple of operations to scrape out the cartilage because the scar tissue wasn’t healing properly. That was one of the most painful operations, but the worst was hemorrhoids.”

The tough star, who is up for a Best Actor Academy Award for his role in The Wrestler has credited his pets with saving his life, claiming they helped him through his darkest days.

The actor spent years in the Hollywood wilderness after countless run-ins with police and hot-headed rows with movie executives, leading to the downfall of his big-screen career.
He hit rock bottom his split from ex wife Carre Otis, and even though he claims he didn’t consider suicide, Rourke admits he wished he could hide from his personal pain.

In a candid interview for Barbara Walters Oscar Special, Mickey explains:

“The dogs were there when no one else was there. I think I hadn’t left the house for four or five months, and I was sitting in the closet, sleeping in the closet for some reason, and I was in a bad place, and I just remember I was thinking, ‘Oh, man, if I do this.’ And then I looked at my dog, Lowjack, and he made a sound, like a little almost human sound. I don’t have kids, the dogs became everything to me. The dog was looking at me going, ‘Who’s going to take care of me?’”

Mickey and Loki recently appeared in a PETA ad together.