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Selection has its “actors on actors” sequence of interviews the place two particularly hot-right-now pairs of actors interview one another about their previous work and performing typically. This yr, Jodie Foster received paired up with current Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. who has some stunning ideas about his most well-known position.
Foster asks him what he would consider “placing the swimsuit again on once more for Tony Stark.” Right here’s his reply:
“It’s simply crazily in my DNA. In all probability essentially the most like-me character I’ve ever performed, despite the fact that he’s method cooler than I’m. I’ve change into surprisingly open-minded to the concept.”
Tony Stark’s demise in Avengers: Endgame, saving the universe, is basically the head second in your complete MCU timeline. You might argue that the success of Iron Man and Downey effortlessly embracing the position is why your complete MCU exists within the first place.
When you concentrate on it, it’s not all that loopy that Downey Jr. is keen to return to a job that made him tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} and made him the centerpiece of the highest-profile movie sequence on this planet. Nonetheless, beforehand he had mentioned he was frightened that his time as Stark and basically solely Stark had made him rusty for different films like Oppenheimer. When requested about that potential downside again in 2023:
“Sure. 100%, and I knew there was some extent the place Chris Nolan was endorsing, let’s work these different muscle groups, however let’s do it whereas rendering you devoid of your typical go-to issues.”
However you recognize, then he went on to…win an Oscar for that position, so maybe he has confirmed to himself he can nonetheless act the hell out of different components when he needs to, so why not return to Tony after grabbing that golden validation statue?
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 10: On this handout picture supplied by A.M.P.A.S., Robert Downey Jr. is … [+] seen backstage through the 96th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photograph by Al Seib/A.M.P.A.S. through Getty Photos) O (Photograph by Richard Harbaugh/A.M.P.A.S. through Getty Photos)Getty Photos
In fact the concept may cheapen Tony’s demise a bit, and I do know not less than some followers might not need this to occur. However since Tony’s demise, there actually has not been anybody to interchange him. His protégé, Spider-Man, isn’t in the identical position. His buddy, Rhodey, has been a Skrull half this time. Ironheart, a comic book evolution of his armor-suit idea, is getting a decrease profile Disney Plus present after an odd visitor debut in Wakanda Perpetually. There’s not the Captain America downside the place Steve Rogers returning would displace Sam Wilson taking the literal protect and title. Nobody has picked up his mantle.
Briefly, there’s nonetheless room for him, and Disney might want his return as an enormous draw to get folks again into the MCU. That is additionally the world of comedian books, and there are infinite methods lifeless characters can come again to life. The obvious one at present could be the multiverse, as there are infinite Downey Jr. Tony Starks in infinite different worlds so you possibly can simply pop one out of a portal and he’s again. There’s time journey too, although that was already closely leaned on in Endgame. You might clone him and regrow him in a lab, I don’t know. The purpose is, there are alternatives.
I don’t understand how I really feel about it. I’m tempted to say no, let him relaxation, however I don’t blame Downey Jr. for being “open” to the concept of returning.
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