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Robert Downey Jr. admits his work as Iron Man in the MCU was some of the best of his career “but it went a little bit unnoticed because of the genre”

Robert Downey Jr. admits his work as Iron Man in the MCU was some of the best of his career,

Although he recently won a Golden Globe Award for his work in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, actor Robert Downey Jr. isn’t one to minimize the significance of his 11-year tenure as Marvel Cinematic Universe centerpiece Tony Stark/Iron Man, a role he’s now synonymous with. Downey Jr. is currently one of the top contenders to win an Oscar in the Best Supporting Actor category at the 9th Academy Awards ceremony for his performance in Oppenheimer, where he played Lewis Strauss, one of the original members of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. If he does, it would make the fact that Robert Downey Jr. admits his work as Iron Man in the MCU was some of the best of his career, “but it went a little bit unnoticed because of the genre” even more meaningful.

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