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Robert Downey Jr on Elon Musk ‘cosplaying Tony Stark’: ‘I wish he’d control his behaviour’
The actor who was speaking on a podcast addressed similarities between the real-life billionaire and the cocky tycoon superhero he played on screen
In 2022, Iron Man screenwriter Mark Fergus confirmed that Musk had partly inspired the screen version of the Marvel hero, as both men share tech prowess, arrogance and a short fuse. He told New York magazine that Stark was as if “Musk took the brilliance of [Steve] Jobs with the showmanship of [Donald] Trump,” adding: “He was the only one who had the fun factor and the celebrity vibe and actual business substance.” In 2015, Back to the Future writer Bob Gale confirmed the longstanding theory that Biff Tannen, the trilogy’s dim yet avaricious antagonist who opens a casino and uses the money to influence US politics, was based on Trump.
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