The opening of the stand-up comics was just a casual combination. Anyway, I met my destiny in Chicago. She saw the weird science I shot here. “He has a small flaw and I have a flaw.” Then she helped me to confuse me and threaten me. Entered my life I didn’t wanna lose her.
““Robert Downey Jr is hardly the obvious choice to play an iconic crime fighter,” sniffed USA Today in April 2007, when the then-washed up and scandal-ridden 42-year-old actor was announced as the improbable star of a forthcoming comic book film – you know, for kids.
Today, that sentiment reads like Albert Einstein’s famous 1895 school report, in which a Munich schoolmaster wrote that the 16-year-old future genius physicist and conceiver of the theory of relativity “will never amount to anything”.
But 11 years, 22 films and $18.8 billion in Marvel’s coffers later, Downey’s Tony Stark looks a lot like the single most inspired piece of casting in modern motion pictures. An actor no-one wanted to work with was playing a superhero with no special powers in a film no-one had asked for. Then he became the centre of the cinematic universe.”
