Looking back over the course of Tony Scott's career you begin to notice several of his films utilize a fantastic cast of supporting actors and with Domino he doesn't hold back. In a film centered on the life of Domino Harvey played by Keira Knightley he manages to surround the skinny little actress with enough star power to make your head turn, and this is star power it seems only Scott can put together so appropriately.

From the perfectly cast Christopher Walken to the newcomer Edgar Ramirez, Domino sets 'em up and these guys shoot 'em down and when it comes to the shooting who can leave out Mickey Rourke. In my interviews with Tony Scott, Keira Knightley, Brian Austin Green, Ian Ziering and Edgar Ramirez Rourke's name seemed to be the one that always drew a smile and a smirk as the man's persona seems to live up to all the rumors.

Starting with the new, my attention is first turned to Edgar Ramirez, a native of Caracas, Venezuela and a world traveler thanks to his military father, and yet after several international pictures he finds himself in a big budget flick for Tony Scott alongside Keira Knightley as co-bounty hunter and a bit of Latin eye candy, Choco.

So what did Knightley think of her co-star? "I think the guy is a fucking genius. I haven't seen any of his other work, but he is just such a sweet, gentle and amazing man."

Tony Scott first found Ramirez thanks to casting director Denise Chapman as Ramirez was in town for only four days. It turned out to be a fortunate four days as Scott describes, "Edgar came in and normally I worry about beautiful guys, because Edgar is very beautiful, somewhere between Jim Morrison and Val Kilmer, and normally people like that survive their lives on their beauty and this [points to his head] slows down, but Edgar was such a combination because he has lived in Venezuela and Caracas, which is a dangerous place, and also he is very smart. So with the combination of the two I could see there was a paradigm and that's what made it so beautiful, there was also a weird contradiction and I love contradictions in people."

So what did Edgar think of the whole thing, "I was very happy when I got the script. I read it in just one go. I had a hard time trying to understand the whole bounty-hunting thing because in Latin America we don't have such an activity. Also Keira too, we had to take a real seminar in order to understand the whole thing. But the story is so appealing and so about emotions running free in the most extreme way it really caught me and I was very happy when I found out I was selected for this part."

Ramirez told me that while Domino is a great opportunity to work in Hollywood he doesn't think of films in terms of big budget and small budget, instead he looks at them as individual stories. So on the topic of trying to stay in Hollywood and make only big budget films it wasn't exactly his primary motivator.

"What I really aspire to is to have the chance to be close to the most interesting, touching and contradictory characters ever possible for me," Ramirez explained. "Regardless of whether they take place in the States, in Peru, in Macedonia or in France I think the place of work for an actor is the world and wherever there is a good story, an intimate story, something that moves you I would like to be part of it."

However, he did notice a bit of a difference working on Domino compared to his earlier pictures, "There's a different way of doing things, I mean, suddenly you don't answer your cell phone, someone does that for you. For me that's – weird! You have like eight people working with me. When Tony says cut there are like eight people around me. Someone is healing my wounds, then someone doing my hair, and someone doing my makeup, then someone answering my phone. That is very different from the movie scenario where I come from, which is the independent, artisan, the international arena."

Either way, international or local, it was obvious Miss Knightley felt the chemistry, "What was brilliant for me is you've got Edgar and you've got Mickey [Rourke] and you've got me and we turned into a family and there's absolutely no doubt about it and we're completely from different places and different worlds and we collided and it worked. It was beautiful, but I think both of them are phenomenal actors."

"I was extraordinarily lucky with Edgar and Mickey," Knightley added. "I absolutely adore Mickey Rourke, I really do. I've heard a lot of stories and was kind of like, 'Oh what's this gonna be like?' I think he's a fucking amazing man, I absolutely loved him and [he was] totally inspirational, and part of the reason he is so inspirational is he cannot be anything other than what he is and I think that is really rare. Especially in an actor, especially today. So I really admire that."

So he can't be "anything other than what he is" eh? So what exactly is he besides an amazing actor? Well this may be the first time Tony Scott and Rourke have worked together on set, but it wasn't their first meeting as Scott explains, "I have known Mickey 20 odd years and we used to be the 'Hollywood Hell's Angels'. He and I used to go out with 60 guys on fucking bikes and drive and get fucked up and drive back. I have always been such a huge fan of Mickey's because he lost his way in the middle there, but if you think of his early movies; Barfly, Angel Heart, he never lost that, he always kept it. We could have been brothers."

If you think that sounds like some hell raising just step into the shoes of "Beverly Hills 90210" actors Ian Ziering and Brian Austin Green who actually play themselves in the feature, when asked about their times with Mickey they were quite animated.

"You know I didn't know what to expect from Mickey Rourke," Ziering said. "His persona and his identity and the image that he broadcasts to the public is very gruff. I gotta be careful what I say, you are recording everything… At first when I met him I went up and shook his hand and told him I was a fan of his work and I was very excited to be working with him and he was very friendly. It seems like once you are in the social circle and working with each other he is a very nice guy. I don't know if he wants that to get out. He's an animal lover, he had his dogs on the set, he's very kind based on the way he would deal with other people on the set, but if you are outside that circle he has no time for you."

No time indeed. Take a read as Ian describes what happened when screenwriter Richard Kelly came to the set, "There was one situation where we are all in the Winnebago and Richard Kelly, the screenwriter, came in, and he came in with a handicam, because he was very excited to meet everybody and he walks in and Mickey says, 'Who the fuck are you?' and he says, 'Um, uh, well I'm the screenwriter.' Then Mickey says, 'Oh yeah, well get the fuck outta here.' Which is completely what you think of Mickey Rourke, that's how he would behave."

If you are wondering what Kelly did, Ian says, "He fucked off. [laughing] He tucked his tail and left."

Brian Austin Green's experience was a bit different considering one of the scenes he shot with Rourke involved him poking fun at Rourke's character's problem with irritable bowel syndrome. Green explains, "It just became a whole other scene a couple different times. I am sitting there making fun of him about irritable bowel syndrome and not only is he Mickey Rourke, he's Ed and he didn't take to kindly to it. There were a couple times I thought, he's gonna fucking hit me right now."

There are several ways to describe Rourke but Keira puts it best when she said, "[Mickey] can't help but be who he is and that's why I love him."

That's why we all love him.