Our bottomless love for Robert Downey Jr. is well-documented. I will pretty much watch him do anything. He could star in a movie called A Two-Hour Showcase of Heather’s Greatest Phobias and I would still find a way to go see it, most likely by making someone I love go first and take copious timecoded notes on when I could open my eyes. And he’s actually generally quite dapper, and his wife seems nice and stabilizing, so… this isn’t a fug so much as an observation.
Increasingly, something about RDJ lately makes me think he’s starting to look more like an RDJ impersonator.
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I love him too, but he’s starting to look like Bono. In a bad tie.
Yeah, I thought so too. I think it’s the glasses.
He’s wearing an Iron Man suit. Weird.
Considering that he’s at Comicon on an ‘Avengers’ panel, I don’t find it weird at all.
I am a little blinded by my love of him so I can’t really comment on how he looks in general, but in this picture he was at a Comic-con panel in character as Tony Stark to promote Iron Man 3/The Avengers.
The glove is a hint of what’s to come in the third movie. They’re following the Extremis story line and in it, the suit begins to take over Stark’s mind. (I suppose one could argue that perhaps life is imitating art and that Stark is beginning to take over RDJ’s mind, but I don’t think so).
The link below will give some more info for those who are interested.
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Robert Downey Jr is awesome, if there was an Oscar for being awesome he would win it. Every singly year. Just saying.
He is simply impersonating Tony Stark in this photo.
And I obviously meant *single*
Exactly what I was going to say. He’ s not an RDJ impersonator, he’s a Tony Stark impersonator. I’d be concerned if it didn’t delight me so much.
It’s the glasses.
I’m beginning to think that for all the Iron Man appearances, it’s not RDJ playing Tony Stark — it’s Tony Stark playing RDJ.
YES.
I think they are shooting Iron Man 3 right now, so maybe he’s just super Method and can’t quite shake Tony Stark for the weekend. Maybe?
He was doing the appearance in character as Tony Stark so I’d say your observation is pretty bang on…
http://www.laineygossip.com/Articles/Details/24084/Robert-Downey-Jr-rules-Comic-Con-as-Tony-Stark-Iron-Man
Yeah. I really hope he never goes down the fully-blown “I’ve become a caricature of myself” route, like Johnny Depp has.
Nah, RDJ doesn’t seem h*ll bent on on sullying his good looks with layers of worn-out, decades old clothes like Depp. He’s dressed as Tony Stark here and he’s awesome.
Yeah, he’s in character.
You can have him. What a poser.
Can ask what he is posing as? I’ve never really gotten how “poser” is even an insult, especially in this context. What suposedly makes him a poser. Is he posing as an actor? or himself? Tony Stark? I don’t understand, please enlighten me.
I think he’s not really up on being a celebrity as much as he is on being an actor….so he just keeps acting. I like him for that.
I love him without reservation. And that tie is awesome.
He’s been wearing those glasses for weeks and months. I wasn’t really talking about the clothes, either. It’s… something different about his face, and the increasing craziness of his glasses.
You’re not worng. I was in that panel. He has gone beyond Stark – he’s become Kirk Lazarus from Tropic Thunder – no joke. It was surreal. The presence of Shane Black just exacerbated the craziness.
But I still love him.
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I’m getting a weird smug-Kevin-Spacey vibe from this picture of him. I generally like RDJ but he might be starting to cross the line from cool over to try-hard.
Spot on. He’s starting to look way too manicured and exfoliated and foundation’ed and blow-dried. Bummer.
The poor man has to appear at all these premieres/panels/talk shows/whathaveyou, and he can’t have a drink. Staying in character is probably the only way to maintain his admittedly already tenuous hold on sanity.
Before anyone leaps on me for my insensitivity, I’m mostly joking. He knows what the people there want to see and he’s giving it to them, like a pro.
Part of the problem for me is the combination of the spray tan and the obnoxious facial hair. I get that he’s in character, but he’s starting to cross the age line where that… pattern on his face goes from “pretentious, but fine” to “dude, you’ve been out of college for 15 years, get over it!” I know that that’s Tony Stark’s thing but, I don’t know, it might be time for an update.
That’s it. You’ve nailed it. He’s always had this element of extreme self-consciousness in every role he’s played (even at the height of his substance abuse problems, which should have dulled this), but now he’s like Uber-RDJ. Hyper-RDJ. Totally-ON-All-The-Time-RDJ.
I long for the days of The Wonder Boys and Restoration. He was self-conscious, but seemed a little real.
YOU nailed it. No matter what role he’s playing, you never forget that he’s RDJ. He doesn’t ever “lose himself” in the role, and I don’t think he actually tries to. In fairness, there aren’t a lot of actors who can. Also, have a weakness for cocky, good looking men, so I find him enjoyable anyway.
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My mother and I (how embarrassing) are also both totally obsessed with him, and I cast him in the leading role of my fantasy movie version of like every book I read, but I’ve actually begun to wonder, did he, maybe, possibly, have something done to his face?
Maybe the eyelids? It would explain the dark glasses. . . Maybe it’s just his expression, but that’s the first thing I thought too.
I didn’t think he was self-conscious in Less Than Zero, despite the obvious parallels to his life. He blew McCarthy and what’s-her-name right off the screen in every one of their scenes together. Same for the movie he was in with Jamie Foxx as the homeless musician.
That’s the kind of acting I really miss seeing him do. He’s great as Stark and Sherlock but those roles don’t really showcase his full ability.
YOU GO GO RDJ!
RDJ has been playing RDJ for a long time.
It must be the angle this picture was taken at but his head looks WAY too big for his body here.
I agree, you can’t never have enough of Robert Downey Jr., so many movies i watched just cause he was in them. He’s great in every role. The problem is, he’s now being given ones he can’t really show his skills in. He is a very good actor and recently we can’t really see it, we might forget how good he really is. ekstrakt z hiszpanskiej muchy.