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After a lymphoma scare in 2020 and an even worse COVID-19 scare in 2021, Jeff Bridges is back in action in FX On Hulu‘s “The Old Man.” And while the long-time actor’s career is well into its golden years, with his last film roles coming in 2018, it’s great that Bridge is still alive, thriving, and being The Dude. After all, he’s had some amazing roles over the years, including “The Big Lebowski,” “Fat City,” “The Fisher King,” and more.

Last month, Robert Downey Jr. finally earned an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor thanks to his critically acclaimed performance in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.” And while he’ll next be seen on the small screen in the HBO series “The Sympathizer,” the Oscar-winner, who seemed content to leave Marvel behind in recent years, is now potentially open to returning to the Tony Stark/Iron Man role that helped resurrect his acting career back in 2008. Continue reading Robert Downey Jr.

When you think of filmmakers working today in terms of teams, one of the easiest ways to separate them is by their public statements about Marvel films. (Yes, this is reductive, but it’s sadly quite true.) There are folks like Martin Scorsese who famously called out Marvel and franchise filmmaking in general as detrimental to the art of cinema.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Robert Downey Jr. made headlines earlier this month when he revealed that he first met his “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan back in the early 2000s in order to nab the role of Scarecrow in the director’s 2005 superhero tentpole “Batman Begins.” Downey said Nolan wasn’t too interested in casting him, which Nolan fully admitted in a recent interview with the actor for The New York Times. “I 100% knew you weren’t the guy [for Scarecrow],” said Nolan, who eventually cast his “Oppenheimer” leading man Cillian Murphy as the Batman villain.

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Jon Favreau‘s 2008 film “Iron Man” is usually referred to as the blockbuster that first kicked off Hollywood’s superhero movie craze (well, that one and “The Dark Knight“). But according to Pepper Potts herself, Gwyneth Paltrow, “Iron Man” wasn’t pitched to her as a sure-fire success.

Even though it was a risk at the time, it’s impossible to imagine anyone other than Robert Downey, Jr. taking on the role of Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast host Mike DeAngelo puts back on the badge to talk about “Justified: City Primeval.” The show follows Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) as he gets pulled into a case in Detroit after a chance encounter along a Florida highway. The series also stars Boyd Holbrook, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Adelaide Clemens, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and more.

Robert Downey Sr., the younger Downey made his acting debut at age five, playing the ironic role of a sick puppy n his father’s film “Pound.” Downey Jr. found early success as an adjunct member of the Brat Pack, starring in the nihilist classic “Less Than Zero.” He earned his first Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Charlie Chaplin in the eponymous film. Downey has famously, and publicly, battled substance abuse, spending much of the 90’s and early aughts in and out of treatment centers and correctional facilities before finally getting sober in 2003 and making the unlikely leap from getting high to becoming the highest paid actor in Hollywood.

Downey told the New York Times. The Oscar nominated actor starred as Iron Man between 2008 and 2019, ultimately becoming the world’s top earning actor. It was a dramatic turn around for the formerly incarcerated actor, sentenced to three years in prison in 1999 for cocaine possession charges. He was granted an early release in 2000. ““You could just feel the evil in the air,” he said in another recent interview, referring to his time in prison.

While it will definitely (as Kevin Feige so eloquently puts it in the same discussion below) go down as one of the best decisions in Hollywood history, there has already been so much written about Robert Downey, Jr. being cast as Tony Stark in 2008’s “Iron Man.” However, in a new interview with Feige and filmmaker Jon Favreau, it’s revealed that RDJ could have shown up in a Marvel film years before his “Iron Man” debut.

“Gooppodcast.“I think you may come back at some point,” Johansson, 38, interjected about her potential return as Pepper Potts in the superhero franchise.Paltrow then joked: “Really? A 64-year-old Pepper Potts? How great.”“One hundred percent, that’s happening. I can see it,” the “Marriage Story” star teased back. “They’re never gonna let you go.

2008 Robert Downey Jr. film that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe drove him “absolutely crazy.”The Oscar winner, 72, looked back on his career with Vanity Fair and explained why he was taken aback by filming, director Jon Favreau and the script itself.“It was Marvel’s first adventure into making movies.

2010’s “Iron Man 2.”But Johansson divulged in a new profile for Vanity Fair that when she took on the role, she “had never stepped foot in a gym” before her intense training for the action flick.The “Lost in Translation” actress also described her casting — at around age “23 or 24” — as “a humongous moment” for her.“I had never stepped foot in a gym, and I had five weeks to prepare myself for these huge stunt sequences,” she explained.“Back then when we were doing it, over a decade ago, it was before we kind of figured out how to be most efficient in the process of shooting stunt work – what could be handed off to other stunt people and what the actor would practically need to know,” she continued. “So I was doing these huge choreographed sequences and I had no previous experience with any of that stuff.

Collider during a 2019 press visit to the set of the upcoming movie, according to the interview the site published this week. “Really talked about like she’s a piece of something, like a possession or a thing or whatever — like a piece of ass, really.

Perhaps the most hyped cinematic event in all of history, Marvel’s conclusion to the Avengers saga called Avengers Endgame hit the cinemas roaring in a pre-pandemic world and became the biggest blockbuster of all times only recently dethroned by Avatar yet again. The conclusion was epic, IronMan died and Captain America gave up the shield to Falcon.

Marvel fans have put up a billboard in Los Angeles asking the studio to bring Robert Downey Jr.

Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame received an overwhelming response from fans. It became the highest-grossing film ever and broke several other records.

Marvel heroes into the Magic Kingdom had been set to open last July, but was upended by the long pandemic closure.The park itself is scheduled to reopen April 30, with coronavirus restrictions in place, after a shutdown of more than a year.The Avengers Campus includes a Spider-Man attraction that allows riders to sling webs with their bare hands, and gives guests a chance to team up with Marvel heroes like Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Ant-Man and The Wasp.

During a candid appearance on ACE Universe Presents: A Conversation with Chris Evans & Scott Evans, our beloved Captain America himself was asked by a fan if he could switch roles with anyone else in the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe), who would it be and why. Interestingly, Chris chose his on-screen and off-screen bestie Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man."I'll say, I mean, I'll say Downey, Iron Man.

It’s almost like the words Iron Man and Tony Stark have become synonymous with Robert Downey Jr, thanks to his amazing MCU journey. Millions of fans were left teary-eyed during the gut-wrenching climax of Avengers: Endgame when Mr.

We know, we know, it has a couple of days since Halloween weekend ended. But Lexi Rabe's Halloween 2020 costume had us revisiting the weekend for one last time.

Joe Jonas channelled his inner Marvel superhero over the Halloween weekend and we are loving it! The Jonas Brothers singer, who recently turned a father, was spotted on a stroll with his daughter Willa. Although the singer opted for a casual ensemble, he did not do away with the Halloween spirit completely.

2020 hasn't been the brightest years in the recent past as we're met with one problem after another. The most important of these issues is tackling with the coronavirus pandemic, which has swept across the globe and confined humans inside their homes.

Over the past few years, we have loved and appreciated Robert Downey Jr. for his remarkable performance as Marvel’s Iron Man.

One of the major reasons why the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) fans were in a state of grief as Tony Stark breathed his last in Avengers: Endgame is because of what Robert Downey Jr. made of Iron Man, over a decade and more.