Stop Trying To Kill Robert Downey Jr.!
Posted on May 8, 2008
in conspiracy, drugs, Movies
Dear Hollywood: STOP TRYING TO KILL ROBERT DOWNEY JR.!
Downey has noted that his recreational drug use in the 1980s did not spiral into a full-blown debilitating addiction until he played an addict in Less Than Zero. As the star recently told Starpulse, “Until that movie I took my drugs after work and on the weekends. That changed on Less Than Zero. The role was like the ghost of Christmas Future. I became an exaggeration of the character.” Downey’s subsequent addiction resulted in arrests, incarceration, and the near-demise of his acting career. Nobody wants anything like that to happen again, right?
And yet Downey’s next roles included injured on a ton of painkillers in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Substance D abuser in A Scanner Darkly, drug and alcohol abuser in Zodiac, alcoholic in Charlie Bartlett, and finally alcoholic again in Iron Man.
Seriously, guys: Please cut it out. Downey is a terrific actor and seems to be a nice guy. Find him a role as a yoga instructor or the owner of a health food store. Let him play a vegan FBI agent or a Seventh Day Adventist shock jock. Make him Captain Frickin’ America. But this has got to stop.
(If only here was not so good at these roles, you know?)
Its true Robert Downey Jr. is a great actor and apparently method actor since he seems to just dive into his roles. It was truly unfortunate that drugs overcame his life but he made such great films out of it. Now he seems to be on the right track thankfully the character of Tony Stark is not on any drugs. Today he is making the right choices for him and his film career. I just hope he doesn’t take on the role of any more drug addicts
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