When I saw Mystic River I was annoyed with the way the characters spoke. Same thing with Rob Morrow in Quiz Show. Who was he trying to sound like? Act like you have a cold and that’s an accent? I still don’t know if he was trying to imitate some group of people from a particular part of this country. However, in Mystic River, apparently everybody had a Boston accent and nailed it. I guess I just don’t know how Bostonians speak. So I see Mickey Rourke acting like a wierdo, and I’m thinking what led him to make such an annoying voice choice? No one talks like that. Then I watched the Special Features on the Barfly DVD and listened to the interviews of Charles Bukowski (the man on whom this auto-biographical story is based) and wouldn’t you know… Mickey nailed it.
