Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) creating his suit in IRON MAN(2008).
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Downey Jr, Howard Talk IRON MAN
By: Jarrod Sarafin, News EditorDate: Monday, September 03, 2007
Source: Wizard
Our good friends over at Wizard had a chance to visit the set of the recently wrapped IRON MAN film and ask a few questions towards star Robert Downey Jr(Tony Stark/Iron Man) and co-starTerrance Howard(Lt. Col. James Rhodes). Director Jon Favreau finished the shoot shortly before Comic Con 2007 in June and they're in post-production mode at the current moment.
Here's one of the questions they shot Downey's direction;
Can you talk about the wardrobe and getting into the suit?
DOWNEY: Yes. I love Stan Winston and all the guys on his team. There are several stuntmen as well and Mike Justice and these guys, and again, if Jon and I are Tony Stark, then it’s me and those fellows—my stuntmen and stand-in—who can really wind up being Iron Man, because it’s just such a massive undertaking. At first we said that we wanted to do as much as practically as possible. I came into this going, “Oh, yeah. Practically. Practically.” But it’s really tough and really great. Like, the first time you try on that suit, you could take the least macho superhero man or woman and put them in this suit, and I swear to God that for 15 seconds you would believe that any of them would destroy their nemesis. So it’s really about the long game. It’s about, how do you not have a personality meltdown in like hour seven when you kind of feel like you’ve been tarred and feathered and covered in machine parts?
I had come off doing “Zodiac” before this and “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” which was a really good movie that I loved, and “Scanner Darkly” before that—all of these films are really about character and once in a while you get your finger cut off, you have a bad day or you’re wearing an ascot or something like that, and so I had really gotten used to doing these non-technically driven movies. As much as we’ve been able to in this, we’ve tried to have it feel like if Bob Altman had directed “Superman” or something like that.
For more questions at Downey, click right here.
As I said, they also had the chance to talk shop with co-star Howard on his role as Stark's friend & bodyguard, Lt. Col James Rhodes. Here's a sample of that interview;
What attracted you to this role?
HOWARD: War Machine, the whole idea of being able to play a superhero, so to speak. Getting able to go up in jets because the Department of Defense took me up in a T-38 and an F-16. They might let me go up in the B-1, I hurled, like everybody hurls, but all those ideas, man, that was it for me.
For more questions/answers at Howard, click here.
IRON MAN hits theaters everywhere on May 2, 2008.
