Iron Guy wasn’t far too bent out of form in excess of Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscars cracks.
“I really do not treatment,” Robert Downey Jr. instructed Esquire. “I appreciate Jimmy Kimmel. I assume he’s a nationwide treasure.”
All through Kimmel’s monologue at the 2024 Academy Awards in March, the late-night host took aim at Downey’s past drug use.
“This is the optimum level of Robert Downey Jr.’s prolonged and illustrious job,” Kimmel, 56, reported. “Well, one of the greatest details.”
The broadcast lower to Downey, who didn’t smile.
Kimmel included: “Is that an acceptance speech in your pocket, or do you just have a incredibly rectangular penis?”
Downey, 59, also told the journal that he’d be open to enjoying Tony Stark yet again in long term Marvel movies — irrespective of his character kicking the bucket in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.”
“Happily,” the actor mentioned when questioned if he would like to make much more Marvel flicks.
“It’s much too integral a section of my DNA. That job selected me.”
Downey appeared in 10 MCU films — which includes a few stand-by itself “Iron Man” motion pictures — from 2008 to 2019. “Iron Guy,” in actuality, was the initial entry in what grew to become the sprawling, 33-movie MCU.
Loyal to his aged bosses, he defended the Disney-owned Marvel Studios and its chief Kevin Feige.
“Look, I normally say, under no circumstances, at any time guess from Kevin Feige,” Downey said. “It is a getting rid of bet. He’s the dwelling. He will constantly win.”
The MCU has struggled a short while ago at the box business and with critics. “The Marvels,” unveiled last year, grossed just $206 million around the world, starting to be the MCU’s worst-executing film at any time. It holds a 62% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Downey, having said that, experienced a stupendous 12 months.
Not only did his film “Oppenheimer,” directed by Christopher Nolan, gross $968 million — the film received the Oscar for Best Picture and Downey Jr. took house his initial Academy Award for Very best Supporting Actor.
“I’d like to thank my terrible childhood and the Academy in that purchase,” Downey joked throughout his acceptance speech.
“I’d like to thank my veterinarian — I signify my wife, Susan Downey, over there. She uncovered me a snarling rescue pet and you like me again to existence. That’s why I’m below.”
The actor will next look in the new HBO drama sequence “The Sympathizer” about a Vietnamese spy living in the United States through the Vietnam War.
