Robert downey jr. articles
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Robert Downey Jr. can’t save The Sympathizer
HBO’s The Sympathizer enters the television lineup with two strikes against it. In the first place, the limited series’s 2015 source novel, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, was among the worst Pulitzer Prize winners in recent memory, a geopolitical navel-gazer that “thrilled” flattering book critics’ voguish anti-Westernism. In the second, the show’s conceit has already been […]
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Robert Downey Jr. Defends Chris Hemsworth From Thor Criticisms
Chris Hemsworth revealed in a recent interview that Robert Downey Jr. was a supportive friend during a period of self-doubt.
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How ‘The Sympathizer’ Pulled Off That Steakhouse Scene With Four Different Robert Downey Jr. Characters
On the third episode of The Sympathizer—HBO’s buzzy, A24-produced adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Viet Thanh Nguyen novel—Hoa Xuande’s protagonist, known only as the Captain, finds himself seated at a steakhouse table across from four wildly different men all played by Robert Downey Jr. It’s perhaps the most ambitious and mind-warping scene yet from the dense, twisty series—one that feels right in line with the thrilling visual language of master filmmaker Park Chan-wook, who helmed...