Robert Downey Jr. Wishes His MCU Work Got More Real Recognition
The MCU started with Robert Downey Jr.’s career-defining turn as Iron Man all the way back in 2008. Over the next 11 years, Downey would reprise the role for numerous sequels and team-ups, and now that he’s had some distance from the whole shebang, he thinks his Marvel tenure was intentionally overlooked.
Recently, Downey appeared on Rob Lowe’s “Literally!” podcast and mentioned how he feels like his Iron Man work—which he considers “some of the best work I will ever do”—has been snubbed “because of the genre.” He’s not really wrong on that front: the way some folks talk about him in Oppenheimer, you’d think Marvel had been holding him hostage until fairly recently. (A similar occurrence is happening right now with Mark Ruffalo and Poor Things.) And while not all of the choices the writers made with Stark work, he’s always been good in the role and worked to turn in a performance each time. he’s featured.
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