Robert Downey Jr Could Have Been The Star Of This Famous Sci-Fi Movie, But He Failed In Trials

face of mcu for more than 10 years, Robert Downey Jr. also acted in many other movies to success. But he refused to appear in a big box after the trials went badly. We tell you.

A casting that could have been very different

Even the greatest actors and actresses don’t always make the right choices. Almost all of Hollywood’s stars have either starred in turnips, or been less than convincing in certain projects. It’s also part of the job. But Robert Downey Jr, he deliberately refused to appear in a very promising feature film – and very well paid – after passing tests: Gravity.

Released in 2013, Gravity is a feature film set in space. One year before Interstellar, it was a huge critical and commercial success. He even won seven Oscars. Alfonso Cuarón, who also wrote the screenplay, was notably named best director. Headlining are George Clooney (Matt Kowalski) and Sandra Bullock (Dr Ryan Stone), but the casting could have been very different. Too busy on other projects, Angelina Jolie notably had to refuse the role of Dr Stone. Robert Downey Jr almost played Kowalski. But the reason it didn’t happen is quite different.

ubiquitous technology and claustrophobia would have had the skin of the actor

At Comic-Con in 2013, a few months before the film’s release, Alfonso Cuarón revealed that the game of Robert Downey Jr had found itself “limit” by the advanced technologies used for filming. These requiring a lot of preparation in advance and a precisely regulated work, the actor could not improvise and express himself as he would have liked. In 2015, he came back on his own on this bad experience in the show The Howard Stern Show.

I went to try out some kind of new multi-sphere camera they were using to set up special effects, [très tôt dans le développement du film]. I’m the type of guy who can easily become uncomfortable and maybe I just wasn’t having a good day. But in the morning, after doing this for 20 minutes, I said, “This is crazy! How long are we still going?” And I was told: “About 2 to 4 hours”. So I said, “No, it won’t.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jrkgtf5twg

Passing by the role taken over by George Clooney in Gravity, Robert Downey Jr missed out on the tidy sum of $70 million. It must be said that in addition to not being able to put his game in place, he didn’t like the idea of ​​shooting many scenes in confined spaces either: “I can’t work in this confined space. I don’t want to be like this in this fucking can [probablement la tenue d’astronaute, ndlr] during all the movie”he would have told the director. Finally, the same year, we found him in Iron Man 3. Many other MCU productions followed, as well as a few more intimate films. So he didn’t come out too badly!