[ SECRET POST #2329 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2329 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

05. http://i.imgur.com/QC9Niu8.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

And should fans laugh and savor your tears if he does sign to do the movies?

[(Anonymous)]

why do you think he is a douche jw? everyone who work with him says he is such a great guy.

[(Anonymous)]

idk he plays up the tony stark card when he is promoting the movie but otherwise I hardly see any douche moments of him. also this just came up to my dash and apparently people who work with him loves him too

You work with people who try to take care of themselves, and then there’s people who take care of everybody else, and Downey’s one of those guys who literally comes around and he’s taking care of everybody else, cast, crew—’How you doing?’ ‘What do you need?’
[Robert]’s selfless and he’s just a pleasure to be around and it’s fascinating to watch him work. Because through his selflessness, he also finds all these great nuggets. He’s a team player and you rise and sink by the people you surround yourself with.
”
James Badge Dale on working with Robert Downey Jr.

[kaijinscendre]

Dude! Did you see how he defended his fellow Avengers cast members (and Gwyneth Paltrow) in contract negotiations? I can only assume you are jealous of how awesome he is!

And he is mostly likely going to do A2 but no more IM movies. And that doesn't bother me one bit. :P

[(Anonymous)]

You realize the reason he's threatening not to sign is because he thinks his coworkers deserve better compensation, right?

That's hardly self-centered.

[(Anonymous)]

You go on thinking that, and I'll go on thinking he's awesome as hell. Ain't no harm in differing opinions.

[darth_eldritch]

Ironically (no pun intended) I'm glad you posted this, OP, because now I'm learning how great a guy RDJ is from the other comments.

I did not know this. And I have always like RDJ.

[(Anonymous)]

I think he certainly sometimes comes off as someone who has an extremely high opinion of himself, but like one of the other anons said, he's apparently a really decent guy to those he works with. That kinda means more to me than any public persona.

[(Anonymous)]

All I can say is that I met him once in a non acting type situation and he was a perfect gentleman, unassuming and very tolerant of a some real jerks who were vying for his attention at a time when it was completely inappropriate. I would never have even recognized him, he was so low key, if others hadn't.

[insanenoodlyguy]

That'll be the death of the series though, so you know, may you never laugh again.

[localfreak]

Fair enough. I don't know much about him as a person (although thanks to the comments here I am hearing some pretty nice things!) but I think his acting is exceptionally good, and as someone who never really got into Tony Stark/Iron Man in the comics (despite collecting other Marvel comics), his portrayal has made me really, really like Tony Stark, and opened up a whole new section of comic (and movie) fandom to me :) it is delightful. I came out of Avengers absolutely hooked!

[bigmess]

I hardly think he can do no wrong. Didn't he laugh at a joke that douchebag that hosted the Oscars made about Chris Brown/Rihanna? See, no one's perfect.

I think the biggest part of RDJ's appeal is that he was in a terrible place 10 years ago, and now he's healthy, working and with a happy family. It's an amazing thing to accomplish. At least I admire him for that. He may come off kind of douche-y while promoting Iron Man, but that´s probably part of the idea. Tony Stark is a douche. RDJ is a pretty cool dude.

[(Anonymous)]

I actually really like RDJ, but nothing will make me happier than not having anymore Iron Man or Avengers movies. As it stands, they're going to run one of my favorite movie universes into the ground. :/

[sootyowl]

Mmm. I thought the whole thing with Downey was that he had been paid an enormous amount of cash for The Avengers and now his cast members want a bigger piece of the pie. Which I can understand, as some of the cast only received a few million to Downey's fifty (which wasn't suppose to happen).

I thought he was going to sign onto The Avengers as well, but they are just in negotiations as per above. I heard he was also fighting for his cast members dole out and he was the one behind Pepper getting a bigger role in IM3.

Seems pretty classy to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Tony Stark makes you feel
He's a cool exec with the heart of steel

But RDJ is not.

[writerserenyty]

You realize the reason he's holding off on signing is so that his fellow cast gets the compensation they deserve, not for his own gain?

Idk, I think he can be annoying at times, but he doesn't seem douchey.

[(Anonymous)]

[(Anonymous)]

I would challenge you to read this story about Robert Downey Jr, in addition to what others have said above, and still think he's a douche.

http://aliciabessette.com/blog/2011/02/his-name-is-robert-downey-jr-2/

[logicbutton]

That photo makes his skin look fantastic. I wonder how shopped it is.

[(Anonymous)]

RDJ is not a douchebag irl. By all accounts he's a really nice guy and he's trying to get raises for his Marvel co-stars since Marvel is famous for being cheap and low-balling actors while signing them to multi-movie deals.

The important stuff starts 2 paragraphs in; I just included the entire article for context purposes.

He's also a real life hero:

"I’ve been procrastinating on my Iron Man 3 review for the better part of an entire weekend, but before I get to that, here’s a Robert Downey Jr. story that I just had to share. The running joke around these parts is that Robert Downey Jr. has been staying in character as Tony Stark for the better part of a decade. But it turns out, it goes back even further than that, at least according to writer Dana Reinhardt, who relates the story of attending an ACLU event in the early nineties that was also attended by a pre-Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. (I mean obviously it was pre-Iron Man, unless RDJ has a time machine, which I wouldn’t put past him).

The story is old, but it was brought to my attention today by LettersofNote, and I hadn’t heard it before. Even if I had, it’d still be worth a repost. This excerpt picks up after Reinhardt talks about accompanying her grandmother to the event, and pointing out Robert Downey Jr. to her, about whom she didn’t seem to care.

We made our way to our folding chairs in the garden with our paper plates and cubed cheeses and we watched my stepmother give one of her eloquent speeches and a plea for donations, and there must have been a few other people who spoke but I can’t remember who, and then Ron Kovic [wheelchair-bound Vietnam vet and the subject of Born on the 4th of July] took the podium, and he was mesmerizing, and when it was all over we stood up to leave, and my grandmother tripped.

We’d been sitting in the front row (nepotism has its privileges) and when she tripped she fell smack into the wheelchair ramp that provided Ron Kovic with access to the stage. I didn’t know that wheelchair ramps have sharp edges, but they do, at least this one did, and it sliced her shin right open.

The volume of blood was staggering.

I’d like to be able to tell you that I raced into action; that I quickly took control of the situation, tending to my grandmother and calling for the ambulance that was so obviously needed, but I didn’t. I sat down and put my head between my knees because I thought I was going to faint. Did I mention the blood?

Luckily, somebody did take control of the situation, and that person was Robert Downey Jr.

He ordered someone to call an ambulance. Another to bring a glass of water. Another to fetch a blanket. He took off his gorgeous linen jacket and he rolled up his sleeves and he grabbed hold of my grandmother’s leg, and then he took that jacket that I’d assumed he’d taken off only to it keep out of the way, and he tied it around her wound. I watched the cream colored linen turn scarlet with her blood.


He told her not to worry. He told her it would be alright. He knew, instinctively, how to speak to her, how to distract her, how to play to her vanity. He held onto her calf and he whistled. He told her how stunning her legs were.

She said to him, to my humiliation: “My granddaughter tells me you’re a famous actor but I’ve never heard of you.”

He stayed with her until the ambulance came and then he walked alongside the stretcher holding her hand and telling her she was breaking his heart by leaving the party so early, just as they were getting to know each other. He waved to her as they closed the doors. “Don’t forget to call me, Silvia,” he said. “We’ll do lunch.”

Some fifteen years after that garden party, ten years after my grandmother had died and five since he’d been released from prison, I saw him in a restaurant.

I grew up in Los Angeles where celebrity sightings are commonplace and where I was raised to respect people’s privacy and never bother someone while they’re out having a meal, but on this day I decided to abandon the code of the native Angeleno, and my own shyness, and I approached his table.

I said to him, “I don’t have any idea if you remember this…” and I told him the story.

He remembered.

“I just wanted to thank you,” I said. “And I wanted to tell you that it was simply the kindest act I’ve ever witnessed.”

He stood up and he took both of my hands in his and he looked into my eyes and he said, “You have absolutely no idea how much I needed to hear that today.” [original story here, Google-Cached version here]

Aw, geez, is it dusty in here? Heroism, redemption, a departed loved one, garden parties, a handsome movie star using his expensive suit as a tourniquet – this story really has everything. And if there’s one takeaway here, it’s this: you will never, ever be as cool as Robert Downey Jr.



Read more: http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2013/05/rober-downey-jr-is-a-real-life-superhero#ixzz2TmEXYeJI "

[(Anonymous)]

I know it's only one thing and he's probably just ignorant that it's a slur, but he referred to Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows as "Game of Tr*nnies" in an interview and ever since then I just want to punch him a whole lot. I'm sure he's a pleasant guy, but once you use that word, you're off my nice list.

The fact I find him incredibly unattractive probably helps, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Lol, troll harder OP.
Everyone <3 RDJ

[(Anonymous)]

Back in the '90's, I was friends with an Actor who worked with RDJ when they were both starting out. This was during the time that RDJ was falling in and out of rehab on a semi-monthly basis.

My friend repeatedly said that RDJ was one of the nicest actors he'd ever worked with, on stage, on set, wherever, and that he hated how much RDJ got sucked into drugs, because he just knew RDJ could've been amazing.

And look how right my friend has been proven.

(For those of you who must know who my friend is, he was one of the stars in Weird Science, wherein RDJ played a pretty-boy bully.)

[(Anonymous)]

I adore RDJ, he seems kind and in a really good place now. The only thing I wish he'd do differently is to be honest about his bisexuality. Seems like he was pretty open about sleeping with men in his past, but since he got Iron Man he's shut right up about it.

I get that it's a big franchise and now it's Disney as well, but I think he should be honest about it. He's such a big star and so liked and charismatic that it would have a really positive impact!