Robert Downey Jr. is reflecting on his film career and, the films he considers most prominent may come as a surprise.
21.06.2023 - 01:17 / nypost.com
“Armchair Expert” podcast with Dax Shepard and Monica Padman.“And I thought he was casting a spell on me,” he continued. In 1999, the “Iron Man” star was sentenced to three years in California’s Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison after he failed to undergo court-ordered drug tests stemming from a 1996 cocaine possession charge.However, he only served one year, getting an early release in 2000 after posting bail.The Oscar-nominated actor explained that he was transferred to a “receiving center” while awaiting prison.
He dubbed it “arguably the most dangerous place” he’d ever been because prisoners at different risk levels were kept together.“You could just feel the evil in the air, and that was no trouble at all because it was kind of like just being in a really bad neighborhood,” the “Sherlock Holmes” actor recounted. “There was no opportunity there.
There was only threats.”While he was there, he received some “strong chuckles and jeers” one day from his fellow inmates on the way to the shower, as he had his underwear on backwards.Downey was eventually transferred to the substance abuse facility, admitting that it took him around two weeks to finally accept and understand his situation. “We are programmed to, within a short amount of time, be able to adjust to things that are seemingly impossible,” Downey mused.
“And for me, there’s worse things that could have happened than being sent to an institution, by far,” Downey added. “However, we can only go by what we know, and I would imagine if I had to guess, that was the worst thing that happened to me.”After his release in 2000, he went to a rehab facility.Downey has battled drug and alcohol addiction for most of his life, claiming his experience with
.Robert Downey Jr. is reflecting on his film career and, the films he considers most prominent may come as a surprise.
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Robert Downey Jr. has named the two most important films of his recent career.The actor, who is best known for playing Tony Stark aka Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, surprisingly didn’t name his most famous role when highlighting the most “important” films of his career over the last 25 years.Speaking to The New York Times, Downey Jr.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director When thinking of the most important movie in Robert Downey Jr.’s filmography over the last 25 years, one might naturally assume the answer is “Iron Man,” the 2008 superhero tentpole that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe and changed the blockbuster landscape in Hollywood. But that’s not the movie Downey Jr. himself would pick. In a new interview with The New York Times Magazine, the Oscar nominee cited 2006’s “The Shaggy Dog” and 2020’s infamous “Dolittle” flop as his most important titles. “I finished the Marvel contract and then hastily went into what had all the promise of being another big, fun, well-executed potential franchise in ‘Dolittle,'” Downey Jr. said. “I had some reservations. Me and my team seemed a little too excited about the deal and not quite excited enough about the merits of the execution. But at that point I was bulletproof. I was the guru of all genre movies. Honestly, the two most important films I’ve done in the last 25 years are ‘The Shaggy Dog,’ because that was the film that got Disney saying they would insure me. Then the second most important film was ‘Doolittle,’ because ‘Dolittle’ was a two-and-a-half-year wound of squandered opportunity.”
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Sarah Jessica Parker is opening up about her relationship with Robert Downey Jr.In a new interview with the star reflected on her seven-year relationship with the actor and his struggles with substance abuse.Parker said that at 22, she often felt like Downey Jr.'s parent, telling the outlet that she tried to create stability around him in what was becoming a chaotic environment.«People around him would be dismissive of me, but I had given him stability and tried to create a steady heartbeat that allowed him to show up on time,» Parker said. «That made me angry and embarrassed me.»Downey, through a rep, told the magazine that he had «great respect» for Parker.The pair met in 1984 after filming the thriller,, and dated until 1991 as they both worked to establish themselves in Hollywood.
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