{"id":1762373,"date":"2022-12-04T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T11:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1762373"},"modified":"2022-12-04T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T16:05:53","slug":"robert-downey-jr-talks-about-his-upcoming-documentary-sr-honoring-his-late-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/robert-downey-jr-talks-about-his-upcoming-documentary-sr-honoring-his-late-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr. Talks About His Upcoming Documentary \u201cSr.,\u201d Honoring His Late Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frobert-downey-jr-talks-about-his-upcoming-documentary-sr-honoring-his-late-father%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1762373&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/robert-downey-jr-martin-scorsese-superhero-films-theaters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Downey Jr.<\/a> is giving his late father the ultimate tribute with the new documentary, &#8220;Sr.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Downey Jr.&#8217;s father, Robert Downey Sr., was an actor, writer and director most well-known for writing and directing the 1969 satirical comedy &#8220;Putney Swope.&#8221; While Downey Jr. wanted the documentary to be an intimate portrait of his father, his dad previously had plans for a completely different kind of movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The key point in this is when he goes, \u2018OK, I think we should split into two camps: The (expletive) movie and the one I&#8217;m gonna make,'&#8221; recalls Downey Jr., laughing. &#8220;I just go, \u2018Man, hats off to you, Pops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Iron Man&#8221; star had a huge role in the making of the documentary, giving viewers the sense that they&#8217;re watching a private home movie of the family. Working on the documentary together gave the father-son duo a better understanding of each other, with Downey Jr. saying &#8220;my dad and I are pretty flawed dudes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/640\/320\/GettyImages-81032408.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Robert Downey Jr.&#039;s newest film is a documentary honoring his late father, Robert Downey Sr.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Robert Downey Jr.&#8217;s newest film is a documentary honoring his late father, Robert Downey Sr.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Stephen Lovekin\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/robert-downey-jr-shares-heartfelt-post-wife-susan-17th-wedding-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>ROBERT DOWNEY JR. SHARES HEARTFELT POST FOR WIFE SUSAN ON THEIR 17TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY: &#8216;YOU ARE MY BEDROCK&#8217;<\/u><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a way to put something between us in our own relationship and closure. I didn\u2019t know that it would be the quickest way to the heart of things,&#8221; Downey Jr. told The Associated Press. &#8220;It\u2019s like a little string you pull at, you know. And it winds up pulling you into a rabbit hole that I kind of needed to go down in order to process and ingest the totality of our relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Downey Sr. died in July 2021 at the age of 85, due to complications with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/nervous-system-health\/parkinsons-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parkinson&#8217;s disease<\/a>. His final days are featured in the documentary, something Downey Sr. wanted to be included.<\/p>\n<p>For Downey Jr., his intention going into the movie was to get a better understanding of his father and their shared demons and to take advantage of their opportunity to make one last movie together. The younger Downey&#8217;s introduction to the film industry was walking around on his father&#8217;s sets, even getting his first role in his dad&#8217;s 1970 comedy &#8220;Pound,&#8221; at the age of 5.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have pretty good recall for the entirety of this incarnation, for better or worse,&#8221; Downey Jr. said. &#8220;Those films and projects, I have very clear memories of that. I can still see the Mounds bar that was being handed to me. It was my first prop I ever had to deal with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Downey Jr. considers it a good thing he was introduced to the industry at such a young age, saying he &#8220;had the advantage of it already feeling natural before I came into that quote-unquote industrialized version of entertainment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/640\/320\/GettyImages-148349013.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Robert Downey Jr. says that while he&#039;s known as Iron Man now, he was known as Bob Downey&#039;s kid for the longest time.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Robert Downey Jr. says that while he&#8217;s known as Iron Man now, he was known as Bob Downey&#8217;s kid for the longest time.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Alberto E. Rodriguez\/WireImage)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While he might be known as Tony Stark, Sherlock Holmes or Charlie Chaplin today, he explained that he was known as &#8220;just Bob Downey\u2019s kid for a long time.&#8221; Many of the films Downey Sr. made were considered part of the counterculture and out of the mainstream, giving him the reputation of being a skeptical nonconformist.<\/p>\n<p>In watching the documentary, it is clear the father and son had an immense love for one another, but Downey Sr.&#8217;s affinity for everything outside the mainstream made it difficult for Downey Jr. to get a compliment from his father about one of his own movies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hate to say it, but he was a bit of a snob. Susan [Downey Jr.&#8217;s wife] and I did a couple Sherlock movies. He was like, \u2018Cute.\u2019 I did a bunch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/topic\/marvel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marvel stuff<\/a> and he goes, \u2018Uh uh. Yeah, bomb, bomb. Jokes. Funny robots. I get it.\u2019 I went, \u2018Hm. Wow. OK,\u2019&#8221; Downey Jr. said. &#8220;I remember that he thought \u2018Less Than Zero\u2019 was good. He thought \u2018Chaplin\u2019 was too episodic. And he really liked that German song I sang when I was 15.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although there are many similarities in their respective lives, such as their love of filmmaking and their struggles with drug addiction, there is one thing Downey Jr. doesn&#8217;t think he inherited from his dad, saying, &#8220;I did not get his wildly optimistic ongoing super-curiosity,&#8221; something his wife Susan disagrees with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You absolutely have your observation of the world. You\u2019re hyper-aware of what\u2019s going on around you and comment on it, much as Sr. did,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And I think you deal with anything uncomfortable through humor. This is a secret power that you guys have. There\u2019s wonderful things that come with that, and then there\u2019s probably avoidance patterns that are kept up because of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On those \u201970s films, Downey Sr.\u2019s cocaine use was rampant, an environment that surely had an influence on Downey Jr.\u2019s own struggles later with drug addiction. It\u2019s a point that Downey Jr. raises in the film: &#8220;We would be remiss not to discuss its effect on me,&#8221; Downey Jr. tells his father. He replies: &#8220;I would sure love to miss that discussion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/640\/320\/GettyImages-1442878549.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Robert Downey Jr. relates to his father&#039;s path of struggling with addiction until finding stability with his second wife. He found stability with his wife, Susan Downey.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Robert Downey Jr. relates to his father&#8217;s path of struggling with addiction until finding stability with his second wife. He found stability with his wife, Susan Downey.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Emma McIntyre\/WireImage)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Both Jr. and Sr. went through a period of struggling with addiction, but as shown in &#8220;Sr.,&#8221; both men were able to reach sobriety through finding stability in their families. Downey Jr. remembers noticing a change in his father when he got together with his second wife, Laura Ernst, who died in 1994, and then his third wife, Rosemary Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can relate to that, too, up until this current administration, the never-ending Susan Downey empire,&#8221; Downey Jr. said. &#8220;I just have a lot more gratitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since both father and son worked in the entertainment industry, it&#8217;s no shock they both have a love of movies, and watching them together was a way for them to bond and connect. According to The Associated Press, the last film they watched together was &#8220;Walk Hard,&#8221; and they laughed the whole time.<\/p>\n<p>As his first acting job was with his father, Downey Jr. felt very comfortable on that set, something he has found with other directors since, calling Richard Attenborough &#8220;a super wise, loving grandfather&#8221; and saying Jon Favreau &#8220;was like a brother.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s very odd, too, because we\u2019re doing this film with director Park (Chan-wook) now called &#8216;The Sympathizer,&#8217; where I\u2019m doing a lot of different characters. It&#8217;s not experimental at all. It&#8217;s very well-fleshed out. But it&#8217;s kind of reminding me of the Sr. experience,&#8221; said Downey Jr. &#8220;You get dressed up, you try a character, and we&#8217;re going to film it\u2026 so I&#8217;m still working for Dad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/640\/320\/GettyImages-81037986.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Robert Downey Jr. says he feels like he&#039;s still working for his dad.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Robert Downey Jr. says he feels like he&#8217;s still working for his dad.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Larry Busacca\/WireImage)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Sr.&#8221; is set to debut Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/organization\/netflix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Lori Bashian is an entertainment production assistant for Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Downey Jr. is giving his late father the ultimate tribute with the new documentary, &#8220;Sr.&#8221;Downey Jr.&#8217;s father, Robert Downey Sr., was an actor, writer and director most well-known for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1762376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1762376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}