Robert Downey Jr., who concluded a decade-long run as Tony Stark with Avengers: Endgame, reflected on his troubled pre-comeback days in an interview on last night’s post-Super Bowl episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.“I could relate to Tony Stark a lot by the time I played him,” Downey told Colbert (watch the segment above), “a guy who really needed to be handed a dose of ouch.”As Colbert noted, Downey began his career with bang in roles such as the title character in 1992’s Chaplin before “disappearing into” himself (Downey used a cruder term).
Though it went unstated, Downey made frequent headlines in the late 1990s for drug-related arrests.Downey said that his comeback suggested that Hollywood can be “a very forgiving
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