Former ANOTHER WORLD actor and previous nominee Eric Roberts possed with Mickey Rourke at Saturday's Independent Spirit Awards held at the Santa Monica Pier.
Rourke, who is nominated for a Lead Actor Oscar on Sunday, won the best actor award for his performance as a washed-up prizefighter in director Darren Aronofsky's moving drama, The Wrestler, which later scooped the ceremony's best picture prize.
After planting a big, wet kiss on director Darren Aronofsky, Rourke spent the first few minutes of his speech imploring the movers and shakers in the room to hire Eric Roberts and give him a shot at career resuscitation. Rourke vowed that Roberts will bring the goods to any decent part that comes his way, finishing up with a cryptic nod to Roberts' dark past: "Eric deserves to be forgiven for whatever happened 15 years ago."
Roberts played Ted Bancroft on AW back in 1977. Ted was the show's first "back from the dead" character in 1979 with Richard Backus in the role.
Meanwhile, Oscar nominee and former ALL MY CHILDREN star Melissa Leo won the best actress award for her performance in the human-trafficking drama Frozen River.
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