- IRON MAN 3
PART 1
EW has had the pleasure of interviewing Iron Man and
Avengers star Robert Downey Jr., who will be seen next Iron Man 3.
Entertainment Weekly, has released the first part of five of
the interview, as each part will be released with each passing day. So make
sure you check back here as we wi;ll bring you the best quotes from interview
on a daily basis.
. In this first part, he talks about new additions to the
franchise (led by writer-director Shane Black, the Lethal Weapon screenwriter
whose hiring was championed by Downey) as well as familiar faces (such as Don
Cheadle, who returns as Stark’s military pal Rhodey, who will be using some
warfare wardrobe of his own).
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| Robert Downey Jr. |
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Iron
Man 3 brings in Shane Black, who made his directorial debut with you and Kiss
Kiss Bang Bang in 2005. You’ve worn the suit in battle scenes in three films
now – two directed by Jon Favreau, one by Joss Whedon — and I’m curious if
Shane’s arrival changes any of the fundamental approach to action scenes?
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.:
We’ve just been talking about one sequence – the top-secret name is the
Boot/Glove Sequence, I can tell you that, just between you and me – it’s where
Tony only has one gauntlet and one boot and he has to escape multiple captors.
It’s really fun, dude. We’re taking everything from his first gauntlet test in
the first movie up through the most extreme stuff we thought up for Iron Man 2
and The Avengers and pulling on all of it and making this one big, extended
challenge of physics.
EW: You mentioned earlier
that the cast and crew of Iron Man had film-appreciation gatherings – a movie
club, basically?
RDJ: It was a
group of us going to the Cineplex and blocking out a theater on the weekends
and taking in John Toll [the two-time Oscar winner and Iron Man 3
cinematographer] and taking in sometimes a ton of people and sometimes less. We
do something that involves movies and our love of movies…. One was [a movie
that Toll shot] the Wachowskis’ film Cloud Atlas. We were impressed with how
cohesive the direction was, and obviously everything that John shot was
amazing. We saw Flight, which was great, and before that it was Argo, which was
also kind of cool. It’s nice knowing that you can to theater every weekend and
see something good. And it’s great to see what people are doing and to get
excited about it.
EW: With Iron Man 3 there
are some new faces coming in to the franchise: Guy Pearce, James Badge Dale,
Rebecca Hall, and of course, Ben Kingsley as the villain, the Mandarin. And
then there’s the returning ensemble with Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, and Jon
Favreau. Circle one of those names and tell us something they brought to the
project.
RDJ: Since I was
just talking about Flight and Don is on my mind, I’ll start with him. Rhodey is
much more in the dead center of things. He’s much more dynamic. We’ve made this
decision that while Tony is a technical guy, he’s not really a trained guy.
There’s a lot of fun to be had with Don because he’s really good with hardware
and he’s a martial artist, so it’s been really fun exploiting this possibility
of Tony having moments like the one in Avengers, like the one with Cap where he
decides, “Oh screw it, he probably knows what he’s doing.” So there’s a lot of
that and a lot more fun and a lot more depth to Rhodey this time around.
Iron Man 3 releases in May make sure you watch it!
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| War Machine |
PART 2
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:
Iron Man 3 picks up not long after the alien invasion of New York where Tony
Stark went into battle at the side of a thunder god, a living legend from WWII
and a giant green man-monster. Will we see any of those Avengers in this movie?
Or does this movie need to be Tony’s Me Party?
Robert Downey Jr.:
The whole Avengers thing [with $1.5 billion in global box office was such a relief
and such a confirmation of [Marvel Studios President] Kevin Feige’s vision for
this all along. As Kevin has put it, the next step after that is to bring in
someone like Shane Black and – without pretending that the Avengers don’t exist
– find a way to go back to a kind of re-investigation of Tony’s world, which he
thought would be, one, fun for the audience and, two, would rock in a different
way than The Avengers. But we can’t help it — everywhere you look now in every
Marvel movie there are opportunities where certain new pals of his could be
useful. So they’re in the atmosphere, so to speak, but I wouldn’t expect to see
them on the ground in this one.
EW: This will be your
fifth Marvel Studios film in five years and you’ve starred in two Sherlock
Holmes films in that span. How challenging is it to carve out time for another
drama like Zodiac or comedy like Due Date? Or experiments like A Scanner Darkly? I know the interests of
Team Downey go far wider than popcorn franchises.
RDJ: Yes, they do
and basically we’re going to head in that direction for most of 2013. And the
nice thing about Marvel’s kind of unprecedented success is they are already
able to do what Warners had done along, which is avoid that approach of
beginning [a project by picking a release] date and working backwards from
there. And by avoiding that you get a schedule where there’s more space. And,
also, the smart money always says, Let’s wait a little longer and do a little
better. When I first thought of what my world would be like if every other year
I had to put out a product for more than one franchise, the thought was: Well
how will I ever get to do anything else? But neither seems to be hurrying
toward their deaths and still there’s space that allows the rest.
EW: When you consider the
wide spectrum of roles in all of the films out there Stark and Holmes aren’t
that different. Brilliant, decadent, anti-authority, charismatic but
vainglorious, etc. I could see you getting itchy if those two roles filled the
entire canvas.
RDJ: Yeah,
definitely. You know seeing Denzel [Washington’s Oscar nominated role] in
Flight and [the film’s director, Robert] Zemeckis being back in live-action
mode I was thinking how many great opportunities there for us fortunate
actor/movie types. There’s an explosion of possibilities.
Part Three will becoming tomorrow
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