Even as the old interwebs remain a buzz from the drop of a stealer Age of Ultron teaser a few days back, many new tidbits regarding the upcoming sequel continue to pour in.
However, getting info via press release is one thing, but sitting down with one of the actors and getting the goods right from the Avengers’ mouth is quite another! That’s exactly what Super Hero Hype did when they visited the London set recently and talked with actor Robert Downey Jr.
The interview is quite extensive (as we couldn’t possibly squeeze it all in here), so be sure to check out this link to read it in full. It also includes a chat with the film’s resident angry scientist Mark Ruffalo! Definitely worth a look, as you can preview in the excerpt below:
Talk a little bit about your reaction when you first got the script from Joss and how it’s changed since you first got it?
Robert Downey Jr.: Sure. Well, first of all, he’s a good writer, so I always tend to think generally speaking, “Is this a movie I wanna see?” ‘cause all the fine points are gonna get worked out. At this point, as the Mayor of Marvel (laughter), there’s gonna be so many squeaky wheels along the way. Many of them practical and others just, you know, creative departures or differences or whatever. So to me, this kinda started with the third Iron Man which is like, “All right, I’m gonna read the script. Who wrote it?” “Shane Black.” “I like it.”…
Joss mentioned he had a lot of ideas for the second Avengers movie even before he took on the first Avengers movie. Were you kinda privy to where he wanted to go with Tony, with the Vision and Ultron and everyone?
Downey Jr.: Not really. Honestly I didn’t really even get to know Joss until we started this movie. Because Avengers was so–I don’t wanna say disorienting–but it was a thing where it was like this very kind of well-managed compartmentalized attempt to do something unprecedented. I didn’t feel necessarily the stress of it, but I could tell that it was a little bit of a different approach…
Where’s Tony now at this point, because by the end of “Iron Man 3″ there’s a real sense that he doesn’t wanna wear the suit and he doesn’t wanna be the physical guy doing it. So how are you now playing this role as this progresses?
Downey Jr.: Well, I would counterpoint that by saying that I thought that the third Iron Man was about him transcending his dependence on the merits of continuing to wear your wound. And I thought that that was kind of what Shane and I thought was the real win. Was that he throws that thing that had become a dependency away because… that was the question I was always asking is, “Why doesn’t he get those shards out? It’s dangerous…