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20Apr2009

Robert Downey Jr. Calls 'Iron Man 2' "Risky"

DateMonday, April 20, 2009 at 9:29AM
Promising that "everything has been improved. Everything is ergonomic and the story is incredibly risky and artistic for a big genre movie," Robert Downey Jr. talked at length to Collider about Iron Man 2.

Downey's next trip inside Tony Stark's big metal suit will hit theaters almost exactly in 12 months, and his status report is pretty encouraging. Not that you'd expect the star of a giant franchise to say the production was going horribly, but the details he uses in the interview certainly sound like they're based on something real. Then again, RDJ is a great actor, so maybe he's just blowing smoke, but I doubt it.

Admitting he hasn't shot anything with new villain Mickey Rourke, Downey does acknowledge, "I’ve seen his stuff and it is literally remarkable. Literally remarkable. He’s so good." But the recent Oscar nominee also says he feels more pressure with this film than he did the first one:

"I’ve never been in a sequel and it’s very daunting because I feel the expectation of the millions of people who watched it and enjoyed it and told me that it was a little different than your usual genre picture and that they expected us to not screw it up. So I actually have taken Iron Man 2 probably more seriously than any movie I’ve ever done, which is appropriately ridiculous for Hollywood."

Downey's new movie, The Soloist, opens this Friday.

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , , , , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment1 Comment |

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i know why...he is the best film for a marvel super hero, whole weight on his shoulders right now.

Monday, April 20, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterGrandSierraCasino

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