Robert Downey Jr. is producing a documentary with Netflix about his father, the recently deceased director, Robert Downey Sr. abused by his arrests, imprisonment and bad buzz linked to his toxic abuse.
The Hollywood context was more than favorable to taking drugs, he says.
Robert Downey Jr. remembers becoming addicted around 1987, when he was shooting the movie
Snow on Beverly Hills
.
“It was just a crazy time.
It's all about creativity.
We all alter our consciousness with substances.
I was just playing a little at wanting to calm down or stay charged rather than dealing with the fact that things had gotten a little out of hand,” he says.
Looking back, he even wonders how they even managed to finish a single movie, given "the drug culture we were all stuck in."
smoking dad
If the implication of the world of cinema in all kinds of addictions is not a revelation, that on the first contact, at the age of six, of Robert Downey Jr. with drugs is much more.
And that's quite shocking!
The documentary, thanks to an interview from the archives where father and son are side by side, indicates that Sr. played a driving role in it.
“A lot of us have done things and thought it would be hypocritical not to involve our kids in marijuana and things like that.
So we thought it was cute to let them smoke it and stuff.
It was a stupid gesture on our part, for many of us, to share that with our children, ”says the father of the actor, who had a particular conception of parental responsibility.
No wonder then, when his son on the phone tells him that he will address these issues in the documentary, that the father admits that he would "really like to escape this discussion"!
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