Michael Rooker
Michael Rooker
Michael Rooker is an American actor, best known for his roles as Hal Tucker in Cliffhanger, Chick Gandil in Eight Men Out, Henry in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Merle Dixon in The Walking Dead, Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy, Frank Bailey in Mississippi Burning, Bill Broussard in JFK, and Jared Svenning in Mallrats...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth6 April 1955
CityJasper, AL
CountryUnited States of America
I've always wanted to play a teacher.
It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.
I got my training here in Chicago at the Goodman School Of Drama, and a lot of my personal work is usually internal work and stuff. Everything else that goes on is icing on the cake - your wardrobe, your makeup, whatever else you have to do.
Cliffhanger' got me in the best shape of my life, working at 10,000 feet up in the mountains. And everybody was great. I lived in Italy for seven months doing that movie. It was a great vacation.
You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.
I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.
Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.
I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.
You forget about it, after awhile. You forget that you even have it on. It becomes part of you. You get used to it, even the teeth and the contacts, which bothered the hell out of me. It ends up being something that is part of the role, and part of the thing that you're doing. After awhile, it just feels pretty damn awesome.
Actors are actors. They're all buddies. I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone. And the ones you don't get to be friends with, you simply don't work together with them again.