Bella Thorne has accused fellow US actor Mickey Rourke of bruising her genitals with a steel grinder on the set of a film that they filmed collectively throughout what she described as “one of many all time worst experiences” of her profession.
In a narrative on her Instagram account on Friday, Thorne alleged that the episode was a part of a broader marketing campaign to humiliate her whereas they collaborated on the 2020 thriller Woman. She wrote: “This fucking dude. GROSS” and relayed the account in writing over a replica of a BBC article reporting that Movie star Large Brother’s producers had reprimanded him for aiming homophobic feedback at singer JoJo Siwa whereas they competed on the fact present.
A consultant of Rourke didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Thorne’s allegations.
Thorne’s submit recounted how she and the Oscar nominee had been sharing a scene by which she was kneeling along with her arms zip-tied round her again. “He’s imagined to take a steel grinder to my knee cap and as a substitute he used it on my genitals [through] my denims,” Thorne wrote. “Hitting them over and over. I had bruises on my pelvic bone – Working with Mickey was one of many all time worst experiences of my life working as an actress.”
She additionally shared a screenshot of a submit on X by which she alleged that Rourke individually revved an engine and coated her “utterly in dust” for one more scene.
“I assume he thought it was humorous to humiliate me in entrance of the complete crew,” Thorne – the 27-year-old former Disney star whose credit additionally embrace The Duff and Amityville: The Awakening – stated of Rourke, 72.
Thorne then asserted that she needed to take it upon herself to “go in his trailer completely alone” and speak him into ending up the film “as he shouted loopy calls for that he wished” from these helming the challenge written and directed by Chad Faust.
“He refused to talk to the director or producers – so I needed to persuade him to indicate up and full his job,” Thorne continued. “In reality I needed to beg.”
She stated it was “uncomfortable”. However she stated she endured it as a result of “the film couldn’t be completed with out him [and] everybody’s work would’ve simply been misplaced and utterly for nothing”.
Thorne’s feedback about her on-set expertise with Rourke on Woman capped off per week of unflattering headlines for the actor whose work on 2008’s The Wrestler as soon as received him Golden Globe and Bafta awards.
He earned a proper warning from Movie star Large Brother UK’s producers after happening the present and boasting to Siwa, who’s homosexual, that he would “make her straight”.
Rourke additionally invoked a British slang phrase for cigarette that can be a homophobic slur within the US earlier than directing himself at Siwa and saying: “I’m not speaking to you.”
Movie star Large Brother UK’s producers indicated to Rourke that they might take away him from the present if he saved up with the homophobic language.