Acting in a movie and then regretting it: this has happened to many actors. But between regret and “choosing prison” rather than repeating the experience in question: that’s a different matter. So it seems no one hates any of his movies the way Robert Downey Jr. hates his 1998 action thriller, US Marshals.
A spin-off of The Fugitive with Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones reprising his role as Samuel Gerard for The Second Hunt, US Marshals staged Robert Downey Jr. In the shoes of special agent John Royce, who took part in the search for an escaped criminal (played by Wesley Snipes).
If the 90s offered him roles in little-known gems and an Oscar nomination for best actor for Chaplin, the actor also has very bad memories of this decade, which was also marked by his addiction problems.
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In his biography in 2010 Robert Downey Jr.: The Fall and Rise of the Comeback KidThe actor discusses how he fought his way back into Hollywood’s premier league after a career low that seemed insurmountable – and he describes this film.
“It’s probably the worst action movie of all time and definitely not good for mental fitness. You are going through a terrible year, you are on the verge of suicide, what do you think it will do for you? Maybe twelve weeks of running around with a gun in hand?“
Robert Downey Jr. in US Marshals (1998)
He follows: “I think if you were to talk to a spirit guide about this, they’d say, “It’s going to kill you.” I thought I was missing something and it would be nice to be in a movie that my kids would enjoy. But the experience turned out to be depressing. And I’d rather wake up in jail than wake up on the set of US Marshals again.“
words that should not be taken seriously because, unfortunately, Robert Downey Jr. Knows what he’s talking about: After the film’s release in 1999, he was sentenced to a year in prison for a drug-related offense.
“I don’t remember anything about the US Marshals other than us running and pretending we could outrun the competition. I just remember things like, “Put on your bulletproof vest, you’re in camp!” what is this mess where is the story”
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However, in the early 2000s, the actor found a way to redemption, determined to achieve sobriety: a choice he made, in his own words, by consuming a particularly disgusting hamburger. The rest, you know, successes like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) – which he also loved to shoot, experience.Innovative and newFor him – then Tropic Thunder (2008) and the Sherlock Holmes film series (2009), before Iron Man changed his life until two weeks ago he received an Oscar nod for his role in Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed Oppenheimer.
The future belongs to RDJ, that’s for sure.
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