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Recently Released In Theaters Reviews
2012 Twilight: New Moon Planet 51 The Blind Side Mammoth Red Cliff Dare The Messenger Pirate Radio Precious The Fourth Kind The Box A Christmas Carol Men Who Stare at Goats The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day Recently Added Spotlights Paul Rudd Jason Segel Nicolas Cage Rose Byrne Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore Jared Padalecki Amanda Righetti Clive Owen Naomi Watts Joaquin Phoenix Steve Martin Renee Zellweger Liam Neeson Maggie Grace Dustin Hoffman |
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 Robert Downey Jr.
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime There has never been an actor who has experienced more ups and downs than Robert Downey Jr.. In the 1980’s and early 1990’s, Robert Downey Jr. received notices for his performances in films like Less Than Zero and Chaplin, the latter garnering him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. However, his promising career began to hit the skids in the 1990’s as he continuously battled drug addiction, resulting in getting him into scrapes with the law. Despite continuing to hammer out great and memorable performances like on the Fox TV dramedy Ally McBeal and in the video for Elton John’s “I Want Love”, Downey Jr. continued to struggle to get himself clean, causing the actor to often become too much of a liability to secure roles. However, Robert has managed to finally free himself from drugs and has returned to doing what he does best with roles in films like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Good Night and Good Luck, A Scanner Darkly, and Zodiac. Now the 43 year-old has coveted what is arguably one of the biggest roles of his career as the titular superhero in the film adaptation of Marvel Comics’ Iron Man. We first asked Downey Jr. how he had been approached to tackle on such a huge role. “I met [director] Jon Favreau and the guys down at Marvel and we realized that we were talking about the property,” he recounts, “Then on the hallway, on the way out, we’re looking at these posters they have of these films that have done rather well and the video game section and the merchandising and the kids’ toys, books and things online, and I’m like, ‘Wow! It should be cool.’” “Then I went to Jon and I’m like, ‘I’m the guy that should be for this role, you know,” Downey, Jr. continues, “And he said, ‘Yeah, I think you’d be perfect, but I don’t think it’s going to happen,’ and I’m like ‘I think it’s going to happen and let me know if it comes down to a screen test or something like that. It’d be a pleasure.’ And that’s how it went down.” A fan of Iron Man, he felt absolutely no concern at all with the hero’s seemingly B-level reputation in the comic book world. “I was aware of him in those magazine kiosks and stuff, but what I love hearing lately is people going, ‘Well, Iron Man was a second-tier superhero to me,’” Robert says, “Operative word, was.” Another issue Robert also had no apparent concern over was the script, which had more than four screenwriters contributing. He claims that the implementing of Made and Swingers director Jon Favreau gave him plenty of confidence in the very high-profile project. “Well, how many guys who had done Children of Men was helpful,” Downey, Jr. claims, “It had a dark sensibility, good story, and sense of humor, too. ... |
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