“The Soloist” Los Angeles Premiere
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Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.
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IRON MAN star ROBERT DOWNEY JR. has publicly thanked fast food chain Burger King for helping him overcome his personal problems and resurrect his film career.
In 2003, the actor – who, at the time, was battling an addiction to drugs and alcohol – was driving a car filled with “tons of f**king dope” on California’s Pacific Coast Highway when he decided to stop at the burger joint for a meal.
And the trip to the fastfood outlet caused him to re-evaluate his whole life.
He says, “I have to thank Burger King. It was such a disgusting burger I ordered. I had that, and this big soda, and I thought something really bad was going to happen.”
According to Britain’s Empire magazine, Downey Jr. proceeded to throw all his drugs into the ocean, resolving to clean up his act then and there.
The actor goes on to hint that a fateful moment in new movie Iron Man, when his character Tony Stark requests a cheeseburger from Burger King after being released from his captors, is a reference to his own experiences.
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IT’S Robert Downey Jr. as you’ve never seen him before. In the Ben Stiller-directed satire “Tropic Thunder,” due out this August, Downey appears in blackface. He plays a method actor named Kirk Lazarus, a seven-time Oscar winner whose latest role was originally meant for a black actor. “In his eternal struggle to push the boundaries he has his skin dyed black,” a source explained. Downey appears in a scene with Stiller and Jack Black. Tom Cruise also makes a cameo in the over-the-top comedy, disguised in a fat suit – “He will blow people away,” said our source.
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Robert Downey Jr. says people still worry he’s about to fall off the wagon any second now. The recovering drug addict, who did a year in the slammer, tells the March issue of Esquire: “I can have the yoga teacher come to the door, and if I don’t answer it and he’s waiting outside for me, he goes, ‘I thought you were [bleeping] dead.’ ” Still, sobriety remains a round-the-clock job. “I am surrounded, like an MIT prodigy, with teams and squads of experts and supporters,” Downey says. “How much support do I need? Uh, tons?”
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Nicole Kidman’s roll in the hay with Robert Downey Jr.
Things got quite intimate when Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr. rolled around for their love scenes in “Fur,” a fictionalized version of famed photographer Diane Arbus’ life, which opens Nov. 10. “I cleared the room – it was only me, the cinematographer and the two actors,” director Steve Shainberg told us the other night at the ‘21′ party for Alex Kuczynski’s book, “Beauty Junkies.” “And sometimes it was just me, with the camera over my shoulder. It’s very tough to shoot love scenes, and you really don’t get to do a lot of takes.” Shainberg knows plenty about steamy scenes – his quirky S&M flick “Secretary” skyrocketed to cult status for its shots of Maggie Gyllenhaal crawling around on her hands and knees with an envelope in her mouth. Not that the sexuality in “Fur” will be as appetizing. Downey’s character suffers from hypertrichosis, which makes his body and his face completely covered with unwanted hair. In one pivotal scene, he asks Kidman to shave him down. Shainberg noted that while he’s inundated with offers for a sequel to “Secretary,” he’s resisting the fast buck. “There won’t be a ‘Secretary 2,’ ” he told us.
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