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 As Downey Jr. has been an actor more recognized as a critical favorite than a box office draw, we asked him just what was the most challenging aspect of working on Iron Man and whether or not he felt at all constrained by working on such a high-profile, multimillion dollar movie. “I think the most challenging part was trusting all this gack and gear and hardware and stuff that’s going to balance out OK with that kind of naturalistic way we were doing the acting,” Robert replies, “I don’t want to say that I’m not an artist, but my feeling about the way that I’m working is that it’s an athletic endeavor.” “My mind is part of it and my nads are part of it and my heart’s into it, but mostly, to me, it always feels like I’m trying to make or beat a time and there’s a lot of calculations going on,” he continues, “So, to me, the hardest part was that this was a really big science project, so the algorhythms were really tricky.” The film has him star alongside fellow acting giants such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, and Jeff Bridges. One actor Downey Jr. touched on in particular of his experience working with was Jeff Bridges, who plays villain Obadiah Stane. “Jeff came in and he would be like, ‘Guys, we should improvise on this scene,’” he recounts, “And we’re like, we are shooting in two weeks. We’re like still figuring out what the sequences are and we’re like, ‘We got two raptors and he’s fighting the F22’s and…what? How? Why?’ And Jeff’s like, ‘I got this Alan Watts lecture I downloaded on my IPod and we should listen to it.’ And it’s like two hours and ten minutes. “So anyway, he wound up really, really bringing us to where we felt like we had permission to do what we all wanted to do anyway, which was get to know each other and talk about this stuff,” Robert continues, “He’s like, ‘I’m not fixing the show up right here and be like that two-dimensional bad guy.’ But what kind of happens is he’s like The Dude meets Doctor Doom. It’s awesome. We talk about that Tocamac reactor. Every time we got into a thing about what does that mean, it’s hard to say what has value when you’re in the clinch and it really was just some of my favorite stuff because I’ve come up and I’m a little younger than Jeff, but he’s always someone I’ve seen as have this very interesting, balanced career. And he’s just a national treasure.” One of the biggest double-edged swords of adapting something as massively popular as Iron Man is living up to fans’ expectations. ... |
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