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Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Episode 64 - Robert Downey Sr.

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Higher Ground

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Society & Culture

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Robert Downey Sr. (also known as "The Prince") is known for giving a candid response. Throughout all of the films he has directed he has never been afraid to poke fun at the establishment--little is off limits. This is not to say that he isn't a thoughtful person, though. In this interview the Prince tells Sam about his days in the army (12:40), his early days of filmmaking (28:37), and some of his regrets (49:30). Also, a side note: it was a very hot day when Sam and Robert Downey Sr. sat down to talk, so you can hear the hum of the AC in the recording a bit. Conversation is just as good, though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music for the show is by Dylan Peck. Original illustrations by Krishna Shenoi: www.krishnabalashenoi.com. Learn more about Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso at www.talkeasypod.com 

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0:00.0

Pushkin

0:09.0

Hey, this is Sam.

0:10.0

If you enjoy our interviews with writers and artists on Talk Easy, then I'd recommend checking

0:14.8

out the podcast Missing Pages. Hosted by acclaimed literary critic and author Beth Ann Patrick,

0:21.5

Missing Pages investigates the biggest hot button topics in the book world today

0:26.4

with the help of special guests like New York Times Best-Selling author Jody Pekle

0:31.3

and publisher weeklies Jim Miliet.

0:33.8

Produced by the people at the Podglamaret,

0:36.1

Missing Pages explores everything from the insta frame of Colleen Hoover

0:40.3

to the rise of book bands across America to the lucrative culture of non-fiction ghost writing.

0:46.0

As both the Washington Post and the Guardian praise,

0:49.0

missing pages is a must listen.

0:52.0

So if you'd like to check it out, you can follow missing pages on

0:55.0

Apple Podcast or wherever you like to listen. We ran out of film one day and it was too early to tell everybody that it was out of Jones'

1:11.5

speech. We were out of this 100 foot spills, spools, or whatever you call them. And somebody said, what are we going to do now? And I said, don't tell the actors who were out of film.

1:24.0

Don't do it. Let's shoot.

1:26.0

So we shot whatever it was and said it's fine, whatever whatever, whatever,

1:30.0

and we kept fucking around and went home, whatever.

1:32.0

So about a week later, one of the guys... get fucking around and went home whatever.

1:32.8

So about a week later, one of the guys,

1:34.9

the actors says, whatever happened to that scene

1:38.2

we shot?

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