- Hollywood.Robert Downey Jr. and his 'perfectly normal' stage of addictions
- Returns.The Resurrection of Robert Downey Jr.
We assume that at this point in history, and having spent about a year since the premiere of Avengers: Endgame , everyone knows how the movie ends, and if they do not know it is because they do not care. So there it goes: Iron Man dies in the end, his sacrifice is the one that saves the planet (and the universe) from the insidious Malthusianism of Thanos , and in that way the actor Robert Downey Jr. - who on April 4 turns 55 years - he completed with honor a cycle of performances that had put him in the skin - and in the steel armor - of the character who has ended up fixing his life, making him one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood in tough competition with The Rock , and also saving him from falling back into the precipice that he looked out dangerously at a stage when he was doing too much drugs.
Downey Jr. agreed to be Iron Man - that is, Tony Stark - at a time when he had recently come out of rehab, he had divorced his first wife, Deborah Falconer - whom he married in 1992 after, it is said, 42 days of intense courtship-, and practically nobody, except his most faithful friends, wanted to give him a job. In reality, Robert Downey Jr. was almost a sucker in Hollywood: over a long period of five years, between 1996 and 2001, his personal life went haywire and starred in several episodes of arrests and drug possession or consumption scandals . Nothing was missing in his small pocket of jeans: cocaine, heroin, marijuana. He was the camel's best customer, and he didn't want to get out of that dizzying spiral that led him to the hole. Even when he entered a detoxification program in 2001, he ran away from time to time and relapsed into vice without batting an eye. Those were the times when he competed with the singer of The Libertines to see who was the most junkie in the world.
After hitting rock bottom, Robert Downey Jr. managed to come back and in 2003, according to his own confession, he was completely unhooked, and married a year later with the film producer Susan Levin. Since then he has not returned to drinking or taking drugs - which, due to his good looks and the lack of scandalous news in all these years, we take for granted -, something that for him had to be difficult, since it was his own father, the director and actor Robert Downey Sr., who encouraged him to try marijuana when he was just six years old. But just because he was clean didn't mean that agencies and directors trusted him. Between 2003 and 2007 his life was a hard journey through the desert in which he had to settle for minor roles, worthy but not especially well paid. It is said that he was hired reluctantly - and for little money - especially for the cost of insurance: if Downey Jr. had relapsed, the compensation for damages would have sunk any production and ruined investors.
When he agreed to be Iron Man - a superhero at a time when, unlike now, superheroes were frowned upon, and for an actor getting into tin armor was a demeaning thing - his contract specified that he would charge half a million dollars for the paper. In other words, between good and small change for Hollywood rates. But that was going to change. Marvel Studios had just been born, no one expected that he would become the goose that laid the golden egg of the past decade, and Downey Jr. was a charismatic performer , well-rounded and well- rounded life experience who looked great on the skin. from playboy Tony Stark. Since then, he has appeared in about seven films in the Marvel franchise, and his salary has grown exponentially. For Avengers: Endgame charged $ 20 million just for the role, and an estimated $ 50 million more in box office percentages and other extras.
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With this income, it is normal that he wants to be away from the horse, and not touch the market or with a stick. From being an evicted from Hollywood, a promising young man who turned into a black sheep, Downey Jr. now enjoys a privileged position as a mature actor who is very good at both heroic records (his roles in the Sherlock Holmes franchise), comedians and even dramatic ones. He serves as a boastful and common man burdened by the weight of existence, he has saved the world and, in the end, he has also saved himself. Even the Iron Man / Tony Stark story - which goes from being a frivolous millionaire to a man committed to the highest values who does not hesitate to sacrifice himself for the common good, when he could have chosen his family - can be understood as a parable of His own life.
His cumulative earnings over the course of his career are estimated to be slightly more than $ 300 million just in wages for his films, not counting his time in advertising or business. Those amounts are, above all, those of the last ten years: if he earned $ 500,000 for Iron Man 1 , in Iron Man 2 he raised the minute to 10 million, and since then he has never dropped below that amount, which he has invested mainly in possessions real estate: a mansion in Los Angeles, another in Manhattan and a farm with horses in Malibu a stone's throw from the beach. To which it would be possible to add that Robert Downey Jr. is a character of moral fable, an example for the young generations: the demonstration that the drug goes out and, sometimes, goes out big.
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