Mickey Rourke has blasted directors who abuse their position to charm aspiring young starlets into bed.

The Wrestler star is frustrated he has had to work hard to land movie roles, when some girls don't even attend an audition. He has witnessed first-hand how young actresses have secured work by flirting with directors over dinner - while he has to struggle to impress with his skills.

Rourke says, "There's definitely something called a casting couch. I did it the old-fashioned way: I went to acting school and broke my ass, studied hard. But if you take a girl from the Midwest with a pretty face, and instead of inviting them in for an audition in the morning, the directors invite them for dinner at night? That's not going to wash in my house."

"I can recall with certain women, we'd go out, I'd park the car on Sunset (Boulevard), and by the time I'd got to the curb there'd be three or four producers handing them cards. That kind of thing makes me act a bit like Attila the Hun. There's ways you get a job, and ways you get a job."

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