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hasn’t changed Downey Jr. ’s perception of the film industry and what it takes out of its participants, especially in terms of how actors come to identify (or not) with the characters they play.

“The disingenuous and the fucked up part is that, much like someone who is dependent on some outside activity, whether its something dysfunctional like an eating disorder or a drug dependency or gambling, it kind of preoccupies your days and you’re not really processing your own actual life,” he said. “And the downside of making films is that you’re there, and 12 hours a day you’re spending being an appendage to this — for lack of a better word — machine that has its own rules and guidelines and desires and directives, so it’s a little bit consuming and it’s really hard to keep all the plates spinning.”

Currently filming David Fincher’s Zodiac with Jake Gyllenhaal and Mark Ruffalo, Downey Jr. will be seen next alongside Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore and Robert Duvall in Curtis Hanson’s Lucky You, set to be released on Sept. 8. He will also share the screen with Nicole Kidman in Fur, a biopic of revered photographer Diane Arbus, set to go into limited release this November.

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