Along with his multiple works as Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. will always have ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Tropic Thunder’ in his heart
It is clear that 2024 – also 2023 if we take into account that it was the year in which Christopher Nolan’s latest was released – marked what is possibly the peak of Robert Downey Jr.’s career so far. It was a few months ago when the actor received the first Oscar of his career for his work on ‘Oppenheimer’ and was recognized with multiple awards and nominations after his fascinating story of rise, fall and rebirth.
Come on Robert, go out dancing
However, although Downey considers the biopic of the father of the atomic bomb, in which he gave life to Lewis Strauss, as “the best movie I’ve ever been in” —and ‘Tropic Thunder’ su “favorite movie of all time”-, the actor He holds his time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in high esteemwhich was born from the hand of his brilliant Tony Stark in Jon Favreau’s ‘Iron Man’.
In the podcast ‘Literally! With Rob Lowe’, RDJ He defended his time at Marvel Studios and he acknowledged that the death of his superhero and the subsequent departure from Kevin Feige’s macro project left him totally exposed, vulnerable and with the feeling of having no safety net.
“I felt very exposed after being in the Marvel cocoon where I think I did some of the best work I’ll ever do, but it went a little unnoticed because of the genre. [Me] I did a favor, because the rug was removed from under me and all the things I relied on, instead of what I understood as trust and security. Wow, they evaporated…”
As he confessed in an interview with the New York Times, the interpreter, despite reservations, decided to quickly jump to another franchise with ‘Doolittle’ believing himself invulnerable. Unfortunately, the setback was considerable.
“I jumped into what promised to be another great, fun, well-executed potential franchise with ‘Dolittle’. I had some reservations. My team and I were a little too excited about the deal and not enough excited about the execution. But at that moment was invulnerable. He was the guru of all genre films. It was a wound of two and a half years of wasted opportunity.”
Be that as it may, it is clear that there is life after the MCUand the Oscar, as well as his work in ‘The Sympathizer’ alongside Park Chan-wook, prove it.
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