Even when Robert Downey Jr. takes off his Iron Man armor and steps out as a playboy, billionaire and philanthropist, he remains true to his greatest weakness: cars. Not long ago, the actor turned 55 years old. During this time, Robert has reached enormous heights, and we can hardly compete with him. But we are sure that if one of us was on the same level as Downey Jr., he would not mind getting the garage of this particular Avenger.
Robert Downey Jr. values his cars. If his collection were displayed along the Pacific Coast Highway, it would stretch for 30 kilometers. Moreover, each of the models looks like a work of art.
One of the highest paid actors in the history of the film industry, he is, of course, best known for his role as Tony Stark. Apparently, 10 films in the franchise have made their presence felt: the actor understands cars no worse than his hero. We selected the best examples from Robert's impressive garage.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Rules of Life
I know very little about acting But I am an extraordinarily gifted pretender.
I'm just a New York dude who accidentally ended up in Los Angeles, pretended to be an actor, and they believed him. It's very simple: I grew up on the street, and therefore the film business for me is like a gypsy paradise, where there are a lot of simpletons and fools who will believe you, no matter what you say.
Am I grateful to my father? Am I grateful to Downey Sr.? Yes, grateful, but with reservations. He made me an actor at the age of five. But not because he wanted to introduce me to his craft, but because he thought that taking me to filming would be cheaper than hiring a nanny. Plus, in The Paddock (a 1970 film directed by Downey Sr., about dogs waiting to die in a kennel - Esquire), he made me play a puppy. So my film career began at the age of five with the remark “Why doesn’t hair grow on your balls?” addressed to an actor who played the role of a Mexican hairless dog.
My father's love was tough, and that is what I am most grateful for. I remember one day, at the age of 17, I called him from a phone booth and said that I had no money not only for food, but even for a subway token. He said, “Call your friends.” I said: “I already called, they don’t have anything either.” Then he simply hung up, after which he managed to say something like, “Sorry, guy.” Thus, my father did everything so that at the age of 17 I learned to earn my own living.
It is very important to remember well those times when you lived in shit. You should never forget your past, no matter what it was. So if you grew up from crap, keep the memories of that crap all your life.
You must always train your memory so as not to forget those stunningly beautiful girls who wanted to cut your throat. These girls are still fucking beautiful, and your task is not to forget what they once wanted to do to you. I'll say this: if you remember the scratches longer than you remember the cat, you'll be fine.
No need to ask me about family life. I'm not an expert in this matter. Once upon a time I was a dedicated onanist who brought this matter to the very heights of skill. Then I tried to attach my quivering organ to everyone I could imagine. And then suddenly I was released. But I know that almost everyone my age wants to fuck someone all the time. And if they have a wife, they immediately start thinking about how to fuck her friend. But I'm not like that. My union with Susan is sacred.
Most often I call my wife “darling,” a little less often “bunny,” and even less often “bitch.”
Many people think that I am bisexual. But I don't flinch. This is as stupid as thinking that somewhere under my clothes I hide several small tentacles that emit liquefied ammonia in moments of rage.
come to an agreement with Pokemon. Especially after heroin.
Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was an abstinent, non-smoking vegetarian. Never in my entire life have I been so pathetic. Nothing happened. Nothing moved. Nothing started. No drinking, no smoking, no inhaling. There was nowhere to go. Because there was nothing to go for.
Those who have eaten all sorts of crap , I think, know: a drug is a loaded gun, the barrel of which lies in your mouth. You are well aware that it is charged, but you can’t do anything, because what you need most right now is to feel the taste of cool metal.
It’s strange: the more desperate, terrible and large-scale I wasted my life, the faster, easier and more painlessly it straightened back out.
I want to believe that the cosmos is a great loving healing force that revolves around us. This force makes mistakes, does a lot of cruelty and evil, but even in violence it sees some meaning. At least that's what I really want to believe. Because if there is no meaning in violence, then, apparently, there is no meaning in anything at all.
At some point - after I had already starred in a bunch of films - I suddenly realized that, unnoticed by myself, I had become a reserved, demanding bitch. And this bitch wants to live according to a schedule. But once upon a time I didn’t give a shit about the very idea of planning something ahead. And when they gave me a new script, I threw it right in the agent’s shaking face and shouted: “What kind of garbage is this? Maybe you can send me some more cat shit in cellophane?” And then, when no one saw me, I picked it up from the floor and started rehearsing. But not immediately - not earlier than in two weeks.
I still can’t get over the feeling that I’m doing what I should be doing.
A good script can easily become your worst enemy and cause you significantly more problems than a bad one. When you get a bad script, you try your best to make it better. And so you, unnoticed by yourself, put your soul into it. And then you get a good script and burst into a smile, because you think that he will do everything for you himself - after all, he is good. And this is where you got caught. After all, it’s as if you just said to yourself: I won’t put my soul into this script, let it work on its own.
Before filming Iron Man (the 2008 film based on the comic book series of the same name - Esquire), I spent so much time in the gym that I could barely crawl home in the evenings. No surprise: at 22 or 32, you only need six weeks of training to look good for six months. And at my age, you train for six months to look good for six seconds.
I'm annoyed by people who think that making superheroes out of people with superpowers is a stupid and tasteless idea. A stupid and tasteless idea is to make a superhero out of a petty and pathetic multimillionaire womanizer who sets out to save the world from boredom in between homosexual orgies.
I can believe in anything. I'm even ready to believe that in a parallel universe, Ben Stiller is an action hero, and Tom Cruise is a comedy star. But only in a parallel universe.
I can't be the cool dude on screen. I'm not Bruce Willis or Mel Gibson. I've never been able to look cool with a gun in my hand.
The scariest moment of my life was filming the film “Black and White” (1999 film about the life of New York youth and race relations, in which Mike Tyson played himself. - Esquire). Director James Toback said to me, “Listen, go to Mike and tell him...” He hesitated. “What can I say?” - I asked. “Tell me, I have a magical sexual fantasy about him, and I’m wondering if he’ll give me an ass - or not?” I went to Mike. Mike was getting ready for his scene. He was choosing which of the Versace shirts would suit him best. He saw me and said, “We’ll improvise, man. The main thing is that this Tobek stops talking his fagot bullshit.” And then I told him what I was going to do. He jumped as if from an electric shock. “Don’t talk to me like that,” he yelled. - Don't talk to me like that! Do you fucking understand that I'm on parole? Do you understand this? If I hit you now, they’ll shut me down again for several years.”
The best thing about Hollywood , in my opinion, is its short memory. This works for me. Perhaps no one here now will even remember that I was once in prison.
Here , above the eyebrow - from the middle of the forehead - I have a scar. This is a prison love mark. It was the first or second day of imprisonment. They wanted me to, like, pay them for protection. I remember saying, “I just started reading Stephen King’s new novel. When I finish, then we’ll talk.” The next thing I remember is the impact. Then blood gushed into my eyes. A fight broke out and bloody splashes flew. And then everyone calmed down. It was as if they noticed something for themselves and stopped pestering me.
In fact, everything was fine in prison. Except for one security guard who kept trying to slip me his script about unicorns. I remember him saying, “Don't worry. This isn't just a REGULAR unicorn script."
If there's one thing that depresses my family, it's my prison stories. But I have no one else to tell them to.
Children need to be loved. Therefore, about my Indio I can say: “My whole life after his birth is one long love letter to this little degenerate.”
All I want from my son is for him to be honest and happy.
Childhood is when you can make unforgivable mistakes and hope that you will be forgiven.
I am more inclined to forget than to forgive.
Every time I communicate my plans to the Lord, I hear him laugh with a deep belly laugh.
I love being busy.
I like to think that life can completely change in a few hours. Otherwise, life would be boring for me.
After forty , I began to like being called an asshole. I just turned forty recently. It seems that forty is not very little and you need, like, to think about something. But while there are crowds of people over 50 around me who are doing crazy things that I can’t decide to do at forty-three, I’m not going to think about anything.
Gasoline prices stopped bothering me the moment I switched to a Bentley.
I'm not afraid of failure. I'm afraid I won't notice that I've become mediocre.
I hate playing Irish people. Who the hell came up with this torment: playing an Irishman while being Irish?
A sense of duty can give rise to as many monstrosities as many other things with more terrible names cannot give rise to.
There are very few words that I would like to burn out of the dictionary, and at the top of the list, of course, would be the word “cute.”
Do you seriously think that I have any problems?
I am selflessly in love with honesty and try to fight lies in all its forms. Therefore, I cannot tell you where I told the truth and where I lied. After all, in this case, the lie will win.
Sometimes I feel sorry for people whose fears are only insects and viruses.
I don't know what makes people become mimes.
Like from the same mother: 10 pairs of twin stars
Why are these stars so similar to each other? Sometimes it seems as if they are hiding the secret of their relationship from us. You probably were confused about some of these actors until you read the credits.
Renee Zellweger and Michelle Williams
Michelle Williams, whose most recent roles include The Greatest Showman and Venom, is reminiscent of Renée Zellweger 10 years ago. But if you find a photo from the same angle, the actresses are so similar that they can even be confused.
Isla Fisher and Amy Adams
Both red-haired beauties are so similar that some viewers even confuse them in the film until they read the credits. One of them became famous thanks to the film “Shopaholic”, and the second starred in “Enchanted”. Guess who's who?
“A Shopaholic” and “Now You See Me” are credited to Isla Fisher, while Amy Adams appeared in “Enchanted” and “American Hustle.”
Robert Downey and Jose Garcia
A French actor of Spanish origin, José starred in the comedy No Brakes and was very much like the American actor known as Iron Man.
Ashley Graham and Eva Mendes
American plus-size model Ashley Graham is so similar to the American actress, they have the same color and shape of eyes, hair and even moles on their face are identical!
Ana Gasteyer and Kathryn Hahn
These actresses are not only similar to each other, they even studied at the same institution in Chicago before conquering Hollywood. There is a six-year age difference between them, but the actresses look like twin sisters.
George Clooney and Guillermo Zapata
Zapata is Argentinean. He runs a restaurant in West Hollywood. Unlike his famous “twin” Clooney, he got married and became a father a long time ago. Some Internet users joke that the double is more beautiful than the original.
Chace Crawford and Ian Somerhalder
American actor Chase is known for his role in the TV series “Gossip Girl”; he is only 33 years old. His double, Ian, is already 40, but the actors look the same age. Somerhalder is known for his roles in the TV series Lost and The Vampire Diaries.
Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard
Another pair of red-haired beauties that are copies of each other. Not only do both actresses look alike, but they already met on the set of the film “The Help,” where they both had to change their hair color for the sake of the script, and not so as not to confuse the audience.
Katy Perry and Zooey Deschanel
When Katy Perry was a brunette, she and Zooey Deschanel looked like two peas in a pod. True, there is a significant difference between them: Katie is a singer, and Zoe is an actress.
Bella Hadid and Carla Bruni
The 22-year-old model of Palestinian origin (Bella Hadid) resembles the 51-year-old top model and former First Lady of France. It's surprising that two women with such an age difference look more like sisters.
Personal life
Susan met her future husband while working on the thriller Gothic, in which Downey Jr. played the main role. At the time, he was divorcing his first wife, actress and singer Deborah Falconer. A romance broke out between the colleagues, which, as the producer thought, would end with the end of filming.
Embed from Getty Images Susan Downey and Robert Downey Jr.
However, everything turned out the other way around: on November 5, 2003, the night before her 30th birthday, Robert proposed to his beloved, who is 8 years younger than him. The couple went public with their relationship that same year. In 2004, Downey Jr. officially completed his divorce proceedings. On August 27, 2005, the wedding of the stars took place in Amagansett, New York. The ceremony took place according to Jewish customs.
“He is an incredible mixture of contradictory traits, there is never a dull moment with him. He is eccentric but down to earth. He is someone who has already lived half his life, but has not lost that very “non-growing” quality of Peter Pan,” Susan spoke of her chosen one.
Embed from Getty Images Susan Downey and Robert Downey Jr.
Having become the wife of Robert Downey Jr., Susan did not become a sedate housewife, continuing to work hard. It was only in 2012 that she went on maternity leave after the birth (February 7) of her son, Exton Elias Downey. The second son of the star couple, Avri Rowle Downey, was born on November 4, 2014.
The woman quickly recovered after childbirth, maintaining a slender figure (Susan’s height is 160 cm). Her photos can rarely be seen on the Internet, since Downey is indifferent to social networks. But her husband is active on both Facebook and Instagram.
Susan Downey now
As of 2020, Susan Downey's personal capital is about $12 million. And the business woman intends to increase this figure. In 2019, the series “AI”, produced by Susan, was released.
Embed from Getty Images Susan Downey and Robert Downey Jr. in 2019
Also, according to the production company Team Downey, the film “The Travels of Doctor Dolittle” will be released in 2020, in which Robert will play the main role.
Currently, Susan is working on the 3rd part of Sherlock Holmes, and in addition, she is preparing for the Perry Mason project. Her husband will also star in this HBO series.
