He is Iron Man
Robert Downey Jr. will return in Avengers: Doomsday. It’s hard to believe that we are just a few months away from one of the most anticipated Marvel films of a long while. It was recently revealed that Tony Stark’s death was once intended to come sooner than Avengers: Endgame. Joe Russo and Downey Jr. talked with CBR and Russo explained, “We try to investigate all angles, right? Everything’s up for grabs. We always say, ‘Best idea wins.’ And a lot of the times you gotta stretch…“ Downey Jr. interrupted, joking, “Mine is just, ‘Don’t kill me.’“ Russo continued, “There was a moment where we thought, ‘They’re not expecting it. This could be the best place to possibly do it.’ But then we’d have to figure out how he could potentially still participate in the next movie. And then we went, ‘F*** it, let’s just do it in the next movie.’“
He is not an astronaut
Downey Jr. was able to stick around for one more Avengers movie (I guess, technically, he’s sticking around longer), but there was one high-concept, effects-heavy sci-fi that just wasn’t meant for him. A clip has resurfaced on social media that features Downey Jr.’s appearance on an episode of Howard Stern’s SiriusXM show. Stern asks him about when Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity from 2013 was initially set to star him and Angelina Jolie. Downey Jr. starts explaining why he was no longer able to participate in the film,
Everybody winds up doing what they’re supposed to do. I came on early in the development process. I don’t think Angelina Jolie was even attached at that point. Alfonso Cuarón and I really hit it off.”sponsored content
He continued to explain that the special rigs that Cuarón used as his method to film the space-set film was too much for his anxiety,
I went to test the new multi-spherical camera system they were using for all the CGI. We’d been at it for about 20 minutes when I asked, ‘How much longer?’ They said, ‘Another two to four hours.’ I said, ‘No, it isn’t.’”
Stern chimed in to clarify, “And you left?” Downey Jr. expounded on his situation,
You’ve got to have boundaries. You’ve got to leave before you flip out.”
George Clooney would eventually replace him in the film, and when Stern explained that he and Sandra Bullock made $70 million on that movie, Downey Jr. would conclude,
At the time, nobody knew it was going to be that big. Any of us can have anything, but we can’t have everything.”
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