‘I Was Going To Walk Out’: Robert Downey Jr. Explains Why He Should Make One Of The Best Movies Ever Since Oppenheimer

Robert Downey Jr. will appear tomorrow in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, in which he plays Louis Strauss, an American politician who played a key role in the creation of the atomic bomb.

And although Nolan says that Robert Downey Jr. is “One of our greatest actorsThe actor feared that his performance had suffered due to 10 years of playing Iron Man for Marvel.

And it looks like the actor is ready to return to the stage, because once the SAG-AFTRA strike is over, he’ll be heading to the set of the remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Cold Sweats.

Downey Jr. will play James Stewart’s role in the 1958 thriller, as a police inspector prone to vertigo. Responsible for the death of one of his colleagues during a rooftop chase, he decides to quit his job. But he is asked by an old relation to follow a woman, Madeleine, who he falls in love with.

This new adaptation of the 1954 novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narsezhak (titled “from the dead“Before renaming “Cold sweatafter the release of the Hitchcock film) written by Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders.

Give a new dimension to this iconic film

In a recent interview with the magazine The New York TimesRobert Downey Jr. explained the reason why he joined this project and it was his passion that led him to this project.

“You know why I wanted to make this film? I was climbing a rock and one day I fell and I was really angry. If I wasn’t ashamed, I would have asked to be picked up from that rock. I lost confidence. My position, the fall was too big and my body reacted, it wasn’t a fight or Escape, it was blocking.

I’ll never forget it, and it made me think that there are cinematic tools that have yet to be fully exploited that I think will shed light on, “What is psychologically the fear of something that should be manageable?” It can be entertaining.”

The actor, who is also the film’s producer, will therefore try to give a new dimension to this iconic film, which is often considered one of the greatest films of all time.

cold sweat Arrived, in 2012, at the top of the famous survey sight and sound For Best Picture, longtime champion Citizen Kane. But in 2022, Alfred Hitchcock’s film was replaced by Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Diehlmann, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels, released in 1975 and voted the best film in cinema history.

Robert Downey Jr. will next join Robert Pattinson, Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker and Daniel Deadweiler in Average Height, Average Build, the new film from Netflix director Adam McKay. The story tells about a serial killer who works with a lawyer to change the laws that will allow him to escape justice.

The actor is still actively working on a possible Sherlock Holmes 3 with director Dexter Fletcher, but the project is currently on hold.