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“I’m afraid of what will happen to you.” Jodie Foster looks back on Robert Downey Jr.’s drug past.

Jodie Foster on the red carpet at the 96th Academy Awards. (Los Angeles, March 10, 2024)
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The American actress told about her conversation with the actor who recently won an Oscar for his supporting role. Oppenheimer. That was in 1995, and he was in the midst of an addiction that nearly cost him his career.

In its latest issue released on April 8, Esquire magazine dedicates its cover to Robert Downey Jr. Since he won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Oppenheimer, the 59-year-old actor has been in the spotlight. The British magazine called Jodie Foster to complete the interview and describe the actor. A longtime friend of Robert Downey Jr., she also contacted him at a time when no one in the film industry dared to work with the actor.

In 1995, when he was making his second film, Home for the Holidays, gives him one of the main roles. He was nominated for an Oscar three years ago for his role ChaplinRobert Downey Jr.’s talent was widely recognized at the time, but so was his drug addiction, and he was then considered “too risky to hire” in Hollywood. The worried director decides to confront the actor with reality. For Esquire, Jodie Foster returned for this episode and recounted the difficult conversation they had at the time. “I took him aside at one point during filming and said, ‘Look, I couldn’t be more grateful for what you’ve given to this movie, but I’m afraid of what’s going to happen to you. be the next,” he recalls. by saying. So far you’re balancing incredibly well on the bar stool, but it’s really unstable and I don’t know how it’s going to end.”

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Genius

When asked why she hired Robert Downey Jr., despite his addictions making it difficult to work with him, Jodie Foster replied, There was more creativity in his little finger than I will ever have in my entire life, but he lacked discipline. He was so far from the West that with all this wonderful talent he seemed to be waving his hands in the water to create a great confusion.’ “But he was in there somewhere, wasn’t he? Because now he has become disciplined almost to survive,” he added.

If Robert Downey Jr. needed the looks of those close to him, then it was also important to have the looks of his wife, Susan Downey. Married since 2005, they have two children: 12-year-old Exton and 10-year-old Avri. “Everybody likes the simple story of me coming in and changing their lives and blah, blah, blah,” the producer said. Esquire, in a quote published on the magazine’s Instagram. “But I can tell you that I would never be who I am without him in my life,” he added. His trajectory is easier to trace because he had to experience his ups and downs in society. When we met, we were fortunate that he was in a situation where he was willing to do things differently than he had done in the past. But you know what? I was too.”

Source: Le Figaro

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