Mickey Rourke talks Iron Man 2, reveals big spoiler (or does he?)

Mickey Rourke sat down for in interview with Total Film (via ComicBookMovie) for their May edition and spoke about his role of Whiplash in Iron Man 2. Rourke said that he isn’t really a fan of big franchise movies, however he was a fan of what director Jon Favreau did with Iron Man, and liked that Robert Downey Jr. was ‘quirky’ as Tony Stark and wasn’t a stereotypical superhero “like Spider-Man, like Batman and all that shit.” (-10 fanboy points for Rourke there).

Anyhow, Rourke went on to talk about his training regime for the role….and then he kind of lets slip what happens to Whiplash at the end of the film…

Tell us about Whiplash’s costume…

The first time I had it on I had it on for four minutes and I was like, “Take it off!” The whole vest weighed about 40lbs and I could walk 25 steps and be exhausted. So what I did with my trainer was put on a 40lb weight vest and put the treadmill on uphill and we just worked out for two months. Whiplash uses electrodes as whips so I used wrist weights and my stunt co-ordinator Garrett Warren would come over and we would do a boxing workout with whips.

SPOILER TIME

Will Whiplash be popping up in any of the other Marvel films?
Well, the only thing I can tell you is that they had decided to kill me and we did film it with Gwyneth Paltrow. And then they came to New Mexico and re-shot it and now it’s left up in the air…

We’ll have to wait until May to see which version they go for. It would be cool if Whiplash appeared in The Avengers, and I guess they could be leaving the door open for Iron Man 3 too.