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It Sure Feels Good to Have Robert Downey Jr. Onscreen Again
Downey wanted a new experience, and he got it in his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer role.
Robert Downey Jr. is one of the most successful performers of the past couple of decades, having starred as Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes in two huge film franchises. In a time when there were a lot of dynamic figures, all kind of battling to be a voice of their generation and/or binding together to overcome the darkest forms of fascism, we still want to be thought of in a favorable light. It reminded me a little bit in a strange way of my wife’s experience working with me where she’s the one on the other side of the camera, making sure that Mr. Smartypants doesn’t blow himself up while he’s charming the chrome off the bumper in the parking lot.
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