Downey walked on the set and said, “Yeah, I got this.” And there is a sincere logic behind his casting in this estimated $130 million movie, scheduled to open May 2. It doesn’t take much more than a viewing of the “Iron Man” trailer to sense that Mr. “If you’re going to spend a hundred million bucks on a movie, why not see who works?”
“The people who made this movie said they were going to screen-test some people, and I thought: ‘Well, that’s how I got “Chaplin.” Maybe this will work again,’ ” he said. Downey seems less surprised than the rest of us. Now sober, highly productive (he’ll be in Ben Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder” this summer) and very much engaged as he sits in his home at the end of a cul-de-sac in Brentwood, Mr. Downey is elliptical, but there is no mistaking that beneath all that allegorical talk there is the beating heart of a ferociously ambitious actor. Downey has been tagged with two shorthand references: “The greatest actor of his generation” (for his Oscar-nominated role in “Chaplin”) was usually quickly followed by “drug-addled lowlife” (based on multiple arrests and relapses). Is this a great country or what?įor years Mr. He is not only back in the game but at the top of it. Yet when it came time for Marvel Studios to cast the lead for a huge franchise film, “Iron Man,” it bet on Mr. getting big play in your newspaper came when he was on a perp walk.
A scant five years ago the only time you saw Robert Downey Jr. Holland's hero helped Downey's MCU icon find a sense of family, especially following Spidey's temporary death in Avengers: Infinity War, and it appears that Garfield sees an opportunity his hero could have taken in a similar vein.LOOK at him standing there, a great big movie star in a great big movie, the Iron Man with nary a trace of human frailty. While that meant he never found himself in Tony Stark's presence, Garfield seemed to feel strongly that it wouldn't have been the best experience for his web-slinger.įrom a more positive angle, Garfield saw a window for his Peter Parker to help Tony learn a bit of humility and step away from his life of excess to some extent. Rights issues kept Garfield's high schooler from interacting with any other heroes in either The Amazing Spider-Man movie, which meant that he had to develop his skills and tech completely on his own after his fateful spider bite.
Literally never know." A Different Take on Iron Man and Spider-ManĪlthough Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker had a similar upbringing as the MCU's hero played by Tom Holland, the two Spider-Men had a completely different experience once they went through their superhero transformation. Maybe my Peter Parker could wake Tony Stark up to his own egoic drives a little bit. But you know, maybe there could be some influence there. I think it would rub my version of Spider-Man the wrong way. I think he would be a little turned off by the excess, the billionaire, trillionaire status of Iron Man. "I definitely think Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man would be pretty suspect of MCU Iron Man. However, he also offered hope that his young Spidey could show Tony a sense of what real life is and help him step away from his own ego for a moment. Garfield admitted that his Peter Parker would likely be "suspect" of the MCU's original hero and somewhat "turned off" by how obscenely wealthy Tony Stark is throughout the series. One specific question asked how his version of Spider-Man would have interacted with Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man within the MCU. In an appearance on GQ's YouTube show Actually Me, Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield went undercover to answer fan questions and comments about his web-slinger. Garfield's Spider-Man Meeting RDJ's Iron Man? Marvel Most recently, he went undercover to answer online fan questions, including one about how his Spidey would've interacted with an MCU icon. While continually denying or avoiding his potential role in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Garfield has been more than open about both his experience playing the web-slinger and his views on what the MCU is doing in the movie landscape.