Zack Sharf Digital News Director Robert Downey Jr. appeared on Rob Lowe’s “Literally!” podcast and said that his run as Tony Stark/Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe marked some of the best acting of his career, but “it went a little bit unnoticed because of the genre.” The Oscar nominee played the character for 11 years, exiting the MCU in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said last month that he won’t be asking Downey Jr.
to return to the MCU as to preserve Tony Stark’s emotional ending (“We all worked very hard for many years to get to that, and we would never want to magically undo it in any way,” he said), but that hasn’t stopped rumors from circulating that Marvel desperately wants Iron Man back to help restore the MCU to its glory days.
The franchise hit a box office rough patch last year with flops such as “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and “The Marvels,” the latter of which is the lowest-grossing MCU movie of all time.
Downey Jr.’s phone started ringing during the recording of the “Literally!” podcast, prompting Lowe to say: “Is that some Marvel shit?
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