Robert Downey Jr.

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Robert Downey Jr. is an actor and producer whose critically acclaimed performance as Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer earned him an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA Award. His newest project, The Sympathizer, an HBO miniseries based on the 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, has Downey Jr. taking on multiple roles simultaneously. Born into a family of filmmakers, Downey Jr. began acting as a child actor in his father's independent films, then entered mainstream Hollywood in the 1980s. His portrayal of the legendary Charlie Chaplin in the 1992 biopic Chaplin earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. After a period of personal struggles with substance abuse, Downey conquered his addiction, dedicated himself to sobriety, and made a remarkable professional resurgence. His starring roles as Tony Stark/Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in the action-adventure Sherlock Holmes, and in the action comedy Tropic Thunder catapulted him to global stardom. To date, Downey has appeared in over 70 movies, which have grossed over $14 billion, making Downey one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Lucy https://lucy.co/tetra ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra

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0:00.0	Tetrogrammitten
0:02.0	Tetrackameter
0:05.0	Tend
0:06.0	Tendrogramming I wound up like squatting in a friend's garage in the Venice canals.
0:28.7	And my dad was like, I forgot to leave L.A.
0:32.4	I thought it came here to do a rewrite.
0:34.1	I forgot to leave.
0:34.9	I'm going back to New York.
0:36.0	And I was so incensed because dad said,
0:39.2	you want to come or you want to stay?
0:40.6	And I was like...
0:41.3	How old do you think you were?
0:42.5	15, 16.
0:43.9	Was that the nature of your relationship with your dad?
0:46.1	Not the nature of, but this is 1980.
0:50.2	Yeah.
0:50.7	So it was like, dude, I'm still a minor and you're wondering if I want to stay in LA alone
0:59.2	or go back with one of my people.
1:01.2	So were your parents together at that time or no?
1:03.2	No.
1:04.2	As a matter of fact, I'd been with my mom in New York when they broke up.
1:08.0	I came out to L.A. where my dad was and I go, this is amazing.
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