

Which is all the more reason to kill this entire charade. Which isn’t entirely unreasonable: I doubt you could get a depth of insight from your close personal friends in 10 minutes, much less from a cloistered celeb on interview seven of 22. If Downey wanted to answer a question more complicated than “boxers or briefs?” he’d be with Sawyer or The New York Times these 10-minute hits are for explaining about how great it is to work with everyone. “Are we promoting a movie?” Downey asks at one point, before trying to elide the question by the end, already on his way out the door, he chides Guru-Murthy for getting “a little Diane Sawyer.” (That’s at least a familiar reaction for Guru-Murthy, who once had Quentin Tarantino snap, “This is a commercial for my movie!” in response to a question about violence in the same.) Unless, of course, you’re conducting a press junket interview.Īs you can tell from Guru-Murthy’s careful couching of the original line of questioning as Downey’s explicit response, that’s not how these exercises in exaggerated mindlessness are supposed to go. Try refreshing your browser, or tap here to see other videos from our team. (And that’s besides the underlying conservatism of your average individualist man in tights, too.) Given that Age of Ultron is a stepping-aside for what has been the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s central character - he has no headlining films, though a big appearance in the next Captain America film- it’s not a bad time to be pulling at the strings that have intertwined Downey and his career-defining role. The political element, too, has a place: Iron Man was partially created by Steve Ditko, a Randian who injected undertones of objectivist philosophy into the character, and is also a walking embodiment of the military-industrial complex. That original quote Guru-Murthy came up with was from Downey’s press tour for the first Iron Man movie, where one of the enduring themes was the similarities between the actor and the character - both naturally talented, effortlessly charming top-of-the-world types whose gifts drove them into dark personal territory (one of Iron Man‘s most famous comic story lines was Stark’s battle with alcoholism). Article contentĪlthough those questions certainly came out of the blue, they’re not all that inappropriate, given that we are talking to the embodiment of Tony Stark.

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