Robert Downey Jr told Vanity Fair that he ain’t him as he responded to question on if he resembles Tony Stark in real life: “I ain’t him. I’m just a fucking actor”

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Robert Downey Jr told Vanity Fair that he ain’t him as he responded to question on if he resembles Tony Stark in real life: “I ain’t him. I’m just a fucking actor”. 

Robert Downey Jr on if he resembles Tony Stark in real life 

“I ain’t him, I’ll tell you that flat out … I’m just a fucking actor”

Downey Jr. appeared in nine Marvels films over the course of 11 years. In his interview with Vanity Fair, Feige remembered how supportive Downey Jr. was to his Marvel co-stars, saying, “We used to joke and say that Robert was the head of the acting department because everybody there looked up to him.”

Feige continued, “He took them all under his wing but not in a subservient sense. He just became their cheerleader.”

“I don’t think he operates with that hanging over him, but I do think this is a period of time where he has been very reflective, and it is something that he often references: ‘Well, I’m in the back nine,’ ” says his wife, producer Susan Downey. The couple met more than two decades ago when both were working on the 2003 horror film Gothika and married in 2005, the same year their next collaboration, the neo-noir Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, came out. Now they run the production company Team Downey, and she is intensely involved in every decision he makes, including when to take a chance and when to hold back.

Back in June, former Marvel Studios president David Maisel also claimed that he played a key role in convincing Marvel’s board to hire Downey Jr. instead of their other candidate, Timothy Olyphant.

“My board thought I was crazy to put the future of the company in the hands of an addict,” Maisel said bluntly. “I helped them understand how great he was for the role. We all had confidence that he was clean and would stay clean.” 

The hands of that ticking clock have now carried him back to a place he first found himself 30 years ago: in Oscar contention for a transformative performance. Back then it was for the lead role in 1992’s Chaplin, an alternately tender and searing portrait of the silent-film star. His next nomination came 16 years and several comebacks later, for a blistering send-up of his own profession in the 2008 Hollywood satire Tropic Thunder.