Robert Downey Jr. has lastly defined how his Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) comeback got here to be.
The Iron Man actor appeared on Tuesday’s episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast and confirmed that Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige satisfied him to return to the MCU because the infamous villain Physician Doom.
Regardless of his character, Tony Stark, being useless, the 59-year-old actor shared, “Susan [Downey] and I had been sitting down with Feige at one level, and he stated, ‘It simply retains occurring to me that when you had been to return again,’ and Susan was like, ‘Wait, come again as what?’”
Downey Jr. recalled how he and Feige mentioned the challenges of a possible return, asking themselves, “How can we not go backwards? How can we not disappoint expectations? How can we proceed to beat expectations?”
“After which he introduced up Victor Von Doom,” Downey continued. “I appeared into this character. In a while, he stated, ‘Let’s get Victor Von Doom proper.’”
The Sherlock Holmes star defined that issues turned official after he and Feige met with Bob Iger on the Disney CEO’s house. Downey Jr. had already been planning to satisfy with Iger to debate contributing to the corporate’s parks and location-based leisure.
“I don’t know the right way to describe that have,” Downey Jr. stated. “I’ve had lots of actually cool experiences. We go to Iger’s pad, and we sit down. I begin saying, ‘I simply actually need to be…,’ and he goes, ‘I prefer it.’ He likes it.”
Iger then invited each the Oscar-winning actor and Feige to Disney’s Imagineering Campus, which all however sealed the deal.
“[We] go to the Imagineering Campus, and also you need to discuss two guys that aren’t simple to have their minds blown, not to mention on the similar time—I can’t say an excessive amount of about [it], however what’s going on there proper now could be so past my expectation of what was potential,” he teased.
Downey Jr. shocked Marvel followers when he revealed his Physician Doom function at Comedian-Con final month.
“New masks, similar process,” he stated throughout his huge Comedian-Con debut. “What can I say, I like taking part in sophisticated characters.”
Downey Jr. shall be portraying Physician Doom within the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, set to be launched in Could 2026.
