Iron Man wasn’t too bent out of practice over Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscars cracks.
“I don’t care,” Robert Downey Jr. informed Esquire. “I really like Jimmy Kimmel. I feel he’s a nationwide treasure.”
Throughout Kimmel’s monologue on the 2024 Academy Awards in March, the late-night host took intention at Downey’s previous drug use.
“That is the very best level of Robert Downey Jr.’s lengthy and illustrious profession,” Kimmel, 56, stated. “Properly, one of many highest factors.”
The printed minimize to Downey, who didn’t smile.
Kimmel added: “Is that an acceptance speech in your pocket, or do you simply have a really rectangular penis?”
Downey, 59, additionally informed the journal that he’d be open to taking part in Tony Stark once more in future Marvel films — regardless of his character kicking the bucket in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.”
“Fortunately,” the actor stated when requested if he want to make extra Marvel films.
“It’s too integral part of my DNA. That position selected me.”
Downey appeared in 10 MCU movies — together with three stand-alone “Iron Man” films — from 2008 to 2019. “Iron Man,” actually, was the primary entry in what turned the sprawling, 33-movie MCU.
Loyal to his previous bosses, he defended the Disney-owned Marvel Studios and its chief Kevin Feige.
“Look, I at all times say, by no means, ever wager in opposition to Kevin Feige,” Downey stated. “It’s a dropping wager. He’s the home. He’ll at all times win.”
The MCU has struggled not too long ago on the field workplace and with critics. “The Marvels,” launched final 12 months, grossed simply $206 million worldwide, changing into the MCU’s worst-performing film ever. It holds a 62% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Downey, nonetheless, had a stupendous 12 months.
Not solely did his movie “Oppenheimer,” directed by Christopher Nolan, gross $968 million — the movie gained the Oscar for Finest Image and Downey Jr. took residence his first Academy Award for Finest Supporting Actor.
“I’d prefer to thank my horrible childhood and the Academy in that order,” Downey joked throughout his acceptance speech.
“I’d prefer to thank my veterinarian — I imply my spouse, Susan Downey, over there. She discovered me a snarling rescue pet and you like me again to life. That’s why I’m right here.”
The actor will subsequent seem within the new HBO drama collection “The Sympathizer” a few Vietnamese spy dwelling in the USA throughout the Vietnam Conflict.