Robert Downey Jr.isn’t giving any type of definitive answer on a potential Iron Man return.
The actor, who played Tony Stark in theAvengersand standalone movies before the character died in last summer’sEndgame, appeared on theTodayshow where cohostHoda Kotbasked if he was sad to see his celebrated hero meet his end. Downey Jr. was on Wednesday’s episode to promote his new movieDolittle.
“Now that I’m middle aged, to be honest, you start looking at the back nine and you go, oh this is part of the journey. Things end and everyone is going somewhere,” Downey Jr. said.
But when Kotb teased how Iron Man might be poised to somehow make a return, the actor joked that it was mostly people going through the “stages of grief” before choosing to stay neutral.
“I am so pleased that I wound up where I have, I’m very fortunate. So I’m not the kind of guy… I want to keep it classy. We’ll see,” he answered.
In an interview on SiriusXM’sThe Howard Stern Showlast year, the actor, 54, was asked about having never been nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“Because it’s a super hero movie? The performance is excellent, it is a totally believable character,” hostHoward Sternsaid to Downey, who has played the iconic superhero in ten Marvel films, beginning in 2008, including this year’sAvengers: Endgame.
“I’m so glad you brought this up, because there was some talk about it and I said ‘let’s not,’” Downey Jr. explained of a potential Oscar nomination.
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“I appreciate his opinion because I think, it’s like anything, we need all of the different perspectives so we can come to centre and move on,” Downey Jr. told Stern.
“I’ll tell you the truth, I didn’t expect [the Marvel Cinematic Universe] to become what it became and it is this very large, multi-headed Hydra at this point,” Downey Jr. said. “I’ve always had other interests, and according to Scorsese, it’s not cinema so I have to take a look at that, you know?”
Dolittleis in theaters Friday.
source: people.com
