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Robert Downey Jr. Says Quality Of His Marvel Work Is Often Overlooked “Because Of The Genre”
Robert Downey Jr., fresh off his Golden Globe win as supporting actor in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, says some of his work was for the Marvel universe but that the performances have gone…
Robert Downey Jr. as Iron ManParamount / Courtesy Everett Collection Robert Downey Jr., fresh off his Golden Globe win as supporting actor in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, says some of his work was for the Marvel universe but that the performances have gone “a little bit unnoticed” because of the films’ comics genre. “I felt so exposed after being in the cocoon of Marvel where I think I did some of the best work I will ever do, but it went a little bit unnoticed because of the genre,” Downey told Lowe, his friend since high school. Downey told Lowe that having the rug “pulled so definitively out from underneath me and all the things that I was leaning on as opposed to what my understanding of confidence and security was, boy did they evaporate.
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