Robert Downey Jr. Explains the Process of Working on Marvel Movies | Joe Rogan

the Joe Rogan experience it just changes and I also know that I don't really know that much and it's different every time anyway but some I really like when you have a loose concept of what you're doing there's certain parts that aren't going to change much and the rest you discover so the first iron man I mean John and I and the and the writers or John and I we we were just would write you write a line I'll write a line and then we would we were literally watching the puppies be born as we did it frustrating for people who not gwyneth because she can look at a piece of paper and then go okay I get it and she's got it all memorized she's amazing but what's for the highest good sometimes it's very self-indulgent to come in and like you know hand out new pages or say oh I'm not saying that so feed me that we you know what I mean you need an environment of respect but I I'd like I like discovering things how much of acting is managing those weird relationships that you have with these other people that you're acting with like you you've made some references to like people changing other people's lines and not being prepared I got out of acting for that very Rita this that was the thing that I I went from a world of stand-up comedy which are just a bunch of crazy people to actors which are a bunch of crazy people but in a different way yep and the managing all the different characters and all the different personalities how hard is that that seems like that could really get in the way well yeah sure can and it's like a thumbprint every time you're a new project it's a completely different you know fingerprint you know you never know what you're gonna get and sometimes projects seem blessed and sometimes you could say they're cursed but again my Susan Downey Esquire was talking about this yesterday she goes it's the only thing you can't overcome as a creative producer on a big movie or anything is in principle no matter what happens you can fix it we lost the light of the Thunder the weather came in okay he got sick oh she's oh she's pregnant okay great they changed the costume you can't overcome personalities yeah the relationships that people have with each other do you meet up before you commit to a role do you ever say like I want to meet Captain America find out what the [ __ ] that guy's really like by the way I mean I love that you think I had to have the authority did you catch this guy hurry let me get a taste of my you really I'm really interested in doing that but we all have a group dinner yeah these guys might so my mo is always let's mine melt let's get together let's work weekends let's spend time together cuz you can't replace that familiarity but so you have to try to build it and sometimes it happens very naturally like I adore Chris Evans I can't even tell you why he's a Boston guy he's technically and it's such a brilliant actor but he also doesn't take himself seriously he's flaky but he's the first guy you would want to have your back if something went down he's and and and yet we're different enough where I feel like by being who we are and then both having those characters we were able to I think I thought I thought Civil War was a special moment in the in the arc of the Marvel films about turning one against the other and what it meant and and so sometimes you just get lucky as a matter of fact the whole Marvel Universe possibly without exception just happens to be a really well what do you call that when you when you put together something curated group of souls mmm well it's interesting because people take superhero movies seriously now like now superhero movies are films that happen to be about superheroes whereas you know for the longest time superhero movies were [ __ ] you know the TV shows were kind of clunky they were there can't be you know it was Batman with the silly pants on and Robin and I bought it everything was a bang boom that member you'd see the big boom and yet who was in the first Superman Brandon yes right there was always a seed of an attempt to legitimize something that was otherwise 2-dimensional the Superman was probably the first film that really did that right and then Batman yeah then the Batman serious but again how many goddamn Batman's has it been right I I want to see what Pattinson does oh that's right he's gonna be Batman now I like that guy weave how many spider-man's ever there been that that's the most right 3x3 yeah and three Hulk's right at least one two three not counting the TV show yeah counting the TV show for the kind TV oh you're right Eric Bana you're right yeah Norton yep mark Mark Ruffalo who I think is he's my favorite oh he was just born for it yeah it's perfect you believe him yeah and again his whole thing was what's my action is like you know anger problem how do you guys manage this giant CGI thing like how does that work like when you're on the set but that seems like one of the weirdest parts about acting and some of those Avenger films yeah is how much of it is actually digital yeah you just kind of get used to it um I'll digress I did a movie with Richard Linklater called Scanner Darkly and it was rotoscoped so great luck a movie I love that movie love him and then Keanu and I and woody and Winona and it was this cool thing and we would shoot these scenes and he would say or you can just leave your your body Mike on the outside cuz there's paint the whole thing so that rotoscoping is a great metaphor for essentially what the Marvel movies became when sometimes you would even go and I'm supposed to come in and like you know throw something and the view was off-camera but everything else was great Oh we'll just move your arm later and you go wow so you never want to rest on your laurels and say you know but after a certain while I was like why am I wearing this this this football suit just put some dots on my shoulders so I can move more freely and they'd be like all right I got honestly what are you really using this all this stuff I'm wearing for they go for reference I go great so I'll wear it for one take and then I'll take it off and I don't relax a little bit but then other people would be like or Bettany would be like I'm stuck in this [ __ ] thing purple so everybody got to join in on the joys and the miseries of the of the the technical challenge of doing it and speaking of ruffalo by the end because he's smart hulk he literally they were just making them big wherever he was and they put a little you know a piece of PVC with a big Hulk head up about five feet over where his head was and he was just there in a green suit so in a tracking suit with like his package out you know and he'd be like let me just at least tie like a little sarong around mice come on guys you know and so I think mark went about as far out into the ionosphere of FC G as you can I didn't get the whole smart smart Hulk thing I didn't get how they how he figured that out I wasn't really yeah like Hulk is supposed to be Hulk right supposed to be the alter it's like one you can control one is one of the the genius scientists exactly what is the beast but after so many times and again this is the genius of the people who break his shape stories over there Feige and his team as they go he's Hulk and he's not Hulk he's Hulk it's a big battle always so conflicted what if he could meet himself in the middle and then what corner have we painted ourselves in by having him meet himself in the middle because then you can't ever if that doesn't work you can't go back to the way it was you've done it or you can go back to the way it was so I just think that the the real genius of the Marvel creative team is they and the Russo brothers who did the last few Avengers infinity war an endgame as they go we love writing ourselves into a corner we love it because then it it activates all of those how do get out of purgatory juices and then you get the next right idea now when you guys sit down and when you first receive a scrip for one of these things do they consult with you do they discuss this with you did they just lay it out and say this is this is the character arced how do you how do you feel about this what do you think yeah and and but it's changed over time I think if you're one of the folks has their standalone movies like Scarlett has Black Widow coming out I think you take a I would you take a bit of a different attack in how much meaning I think the phrase the legal phrase for actors and studios is meaningful consultation not script approval because then anybody could hold the studio hostage because I don't approve this thirty million dollars that you're trying to spend right now so your schedules fine when you say I don't approve I picture a bathrobe and I pictured fine china and teacups that's how I picture I don't approve and then just storming off I've had my moments too because I'm so passionate about story but again after more seat time with the same people and new people coming in and and getting a pretty brutal education on what kind of process these movies require you you you just start trusting more that they're thinking on your behalf and also little things are easy to change big things become a inconvenience to the higher good and at what point do you want to pull the air brake on something where the the trains you know already leaving the station well I would imagine it would be a fine line that they have they want the the actor to be comfortable with the character and they want some and maybe some feedback would be beneficial but they're also they have a path a vision that they've created yeah they would like to see you somehow or another at least morph slightly to get on this path yeah yeah and by the way after I had my second round of kids with Susan I became both artistically I had a bit of a renaissance when I was doing the third Ironman and then after that too I was like well now I'm gonna do this Avengers and there's so many moving parts and it's so difficult just to get all these schedules to coincide and get everyone together then I'm not gonna be like I'm not feeling it so again it's that thing it's a it's sometimes what do they say faster alone further together sometimes you can only think about further because you gotta get downfield other times you're thinking hey this is my moment to run and I need I need a little help and a little approval and I need a little leeway but that's any creative endeavor I would imagine when you're involved in something that's so epic when it's actually over it probably almost feet seems surreal because the production is so massive there's so many moving pieces there's so many special effects so many things that you you have to sort of visualize while you're doing it and then after it's all over you're done what is it like what is a big Avengers movie how many months are you involved in this well I mean it could be some part of eighteen months to two years depending on how far out you are and then four to six months of principal photography and then additional photography and then post and then I always include promotion you know from yeah yeah from soup to nuts I think is the phrase soup to nuts yeah that's a Joel Silver phrase one of my uh-huh one of my great great friends and probably one of the greatest big movie producers of all time we did the Sherlock's with him he did the Matrix series my missus was running his company for ten years Kiss Kiss Bang Bang which is I think in some ways the best film I've ever done wound up being a calling card it came out and it bombed and but Jon Favreau saw it and he said this guy could do it action movie and so that wound up being my calling card into the Marvel Universe [Applause]

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RDJ: "He's Flakey"

Evans: >:(

CIVIL WAR II

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Really nice to see RDJ has just as much reverence for Civil War as we do - I agree with him, I think looking back we'll see it as a special moment in the arc.

Edit: I don't watch a lot of celebrity interviews but having seen this one, I'm surprised to see how much of a genuine fanboy he is of the MCU.