Robert Downey Jr. just won his first Oscar for Oppenheimer, but he has no plans to forget his Marvel days. He even says he would "happily" come back as Tony Stark/Iron Man.
Downey told Esquire in a new interview, "It is too much a part of my DNA." "That part picked me. Also, I always tell people not to bet against Kevin Feige. This bet will lose. He lives there. He always gets the job done.
Downey Jr.'s Iron Man met his end in 2019's Avengers: Endgame, which may have been the saddest moment in the 33-film Marvel Cinematic Universe. Although Marvel Comics often killed off heroes and foes for effect and then quickly brought them back to life, Feige, the head of Marvel Studios, has said that he feels very strongly about the moment when Iron Man gave his life to beat Thanos. As the years go by, it gets harder and harder for Downey to come back to the MCU. A prequel story appearance would probably need CG de-aging, which still looks a little off, and a sequel return could make Endgame seem less important.
Marvel could always write a story that takes place in a different world, where anything is possible. After Doctor Strange in the multiple of Madness and Spider-Man: No Way Home, which had different players play well-known characters, Marvel is still looking into multiple tales. There have also been reports that all of the original Avengers will be back in an Avengers: Secret Wars movie, but nothing has happened yet.
There was also an interesting quote from Downey's Marvel co-star Gwyneth Paltrow, who played Pepper Potts, Tony Stark's helper and wife. Downey Jr. likes to improvise and come up with different (and better) lines at the last minute, so Paltrow said she stopped learning her lines for MCU movies.
"Director Jon Favreau, Robert, and I would go into Jon's trailer in the morning, and Robert would say, 'I am not fucking saying these lines,' and we would throw them out," she explained. "Then live improvising in the trailer or on the set." For Robert, something has to feel new in order to feel living. He makes things feel new by making them seem like they were just made up. We wrote a lot of those famous lines 10 minutes before we said them.
In the meantime, Downey has a few projects coming up. There are plans for him to play Sherlock Holmes again in Sherlock Holmes 3, but the movie has not happened yet. Right now, he is in The Sympathizer, an HBO limited series about the Vietnam War based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning book that starts April 14.
Downey told Esquire in a new interview, "It is too much a part of my DNA." "That part picked me. Also, I always tell people not to bet against Kevin Feige. This bet will lose. He lives there. He always gets the job done.
Downey Jr.'s Iron Man met his end in 2019's Avengers: Endgame, which may have been the saddest moment in the 33-film Marvel Cinematic Universe. Although Marvel Comics often killed off heroes and foes for effect and then quickly brought them back to life, Feige, the head of Marvel Studios, has said that he feels very strongly about the moment when Iron Man gave his life to beat Thanos. As the years go by, it gets harder and harder for Downey to come back to the MCU. A prequel story appearance would probably need CG de-aging, which still looks a little off, and a sequel return could make Endgame seem less important.
Marvel could always write a story that takes place in a different world, where anything is possible. After Doctor Strange in the multiple of Madness and Spider-Man: No Way Home, which had different players play well-known characters, Marvel is still looking into multiple tales. There have also been reports that all of the original Avengers will be back in an Avengers: Secret Wars movie, but nothing has happened yet.
There was also an interesting quote from Downey's Marvel co-star Gwyneth Paltrow, who played Pepper Potts, Tony Stark's helper and wife. Downey Jr. likes to improvise and come up with different (and better) lines at the last minute, so Paltrow said she stopped learning her lines for MCU movies.
"Director Jon Favreau, Robert, and I would go into Jon's trailer in the morning, and Robert would say, 'I am not fucking saying these lines,' and we would throw them out," she explained. "Then live improvising in the trailer or on the set." For Robert, something has to feel new in order to feel living. He makes things feel new by making them seem like they were just made up. We wrote a lot of those famous lines 10 minutes before we said them.
In the meantime, Downey has a few projects coming up. There are plans for him to play Sherlock Holmes again in Sherlock Holmes 3, but the movie has not happened yet. Right now, he is in The Sympathizer, an HBO limited series about the Vietnam War based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning book that starts April 14.
