Robert Downey Jr. has always been the topic of conversation for everything from his family issues to his substance abuse. Though, in a recent interview with Britain’s channel 4, he had no interest in discussing any of those matters. In what was expected to be a promotion
for the “Avengers: Age of Ultron” movie, turned too personal for Downey, and he exited the interview before it’s expected end time.
“You seem OK, it’s just getting a little Diane Sawyer-esque,” Downey told a sputtering Krishnan Guru-Murthy walking out. Downey may have been referring to the very intimate and personal interview scheduled to air this Friday between her and Bruce Jenner.
During Downey’s interview, the first personal question came after a few routine questions on the upcoming “Avengers” movie. Guru-Murthy asked whether the actor himself was becoming a more likable, better man. In which he responded, “”Uh, sure,” the 50-year-old star said with a light giggle, moments before he started glancing toward a handler when the interviewer declared, “I don’t want to pry, but …,” and proceeded to bring up a quote about prison and politics that Downey had given the New York Times back in 2008. He asked the actor to explain what he’d meant.
The quote: “I have a really interesting political point of view, and it’s not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you can’t go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You can’t. I wouldn’t wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since.”
“Are we promoting a movie? …” the celebrity asked. “I’m certainly not going to backpedal on anything I’ve said. But … I wouldn’t say I’m a Republican or a liberal or a Democrat. I was talking to the person who was doing the interview that day and that just happened to be my opinion. That’s the nice thing is you can have opinions and they kind of change and flow.”
Shortky after, the actor picked himself up and left the interview.
