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The best conversations happen off-camera.

Hello and welcome to another edition of Off-camera.

I'm your host, Sam Jones, and in this episode I sit down with Robert Downey Jr.

H.L. Minkin once said,

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority.

The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant in this field as in all others.

His culture is based on, I am not too sure.

Henry Lewis Minkin and Robert Downey Jr. did not cross paths in life, though it's fun to imagine that conversation.

But the essayist's quote is an apt description of the actor's approach to life.

Downey's restless intelligence is reflected in his ability to express several contradictory

points of view simultaneously, making sense all the while.

He can be direct one moment and elusive the next, often spinning off on seemingly unrelated tangents.

But like watching a juggler on a wire, being in Downey's presence is a riveting experience.

For someone who from almost the outset was deemed the greatest actor of his generation,

the majority of Robert Downey Jr.'s career has been filled with big commercial flops,

critically acclaimed flops, very public struggles with drugs, and more than a little jail time, all of which have

landed him squarely in some of the biggest blockbuster films in recent history. It's an unlikely

hero story, but then Robert Downey Jr. is an unlikely hero. With the release of the final film

in the Iron Man trilogy, it's ironic to contemplate that the studios also didn't see him as unlikely hero. With the release of the final film in the Iron Man trilogy, it's ironic

to contemplate that the studios also didn't see him as a hero, least of all an action hero. Downey

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