I know ... It's kinda gay and all for Hemingway's Lounge to be calling another dude, sexy but ... I gotta say, this is a great pic. So ...
Is everyone ready for a kick-ass Iron Man?
Hope so, because Robert Downey Jr. has been hunkified for his portrayal of the famed Marvel superhero in next year's big screen version - a film role originally tapped for Tom Cruise.. Pictures popped up all over the Interweb today after USA Today ran a pic of Downey as Tony Stark.
Undoubtedly, Downey's an interesting choice to play Stark -- aka Iron man. Why?
Well, for starters, the playboy-billionaire-industrialist has long suffered in his battle with the bottle. Plus, it's no secret that Downey himself fought demons as Hollywood's poster boy for wretched excess, eventually serving a year in prison on drug and alcohol-related charges and checking in and out of rehab.
Luckily, however, all that's behind the Oscar-nominated thesp."We didn't want to just go with a safe choice," Favreau told USA Today. "The best and worst moments of Robert's life have been in the public eye. He had to find an inner balance to overcome obstacles that went far beyond his career. That's Tony Stark. Robert brings a depth that goes beyond a comic-book character who is having trouble in high school, or can't get the girl. Plus, he's simply one of the best actors around."
For his role as Stark, Downey is trying to become a real-life iron man. At 42, he lifts weights five days a week and practices martial arts to get in shape to play the hard-bodied Stark, an arms manufacturer who uses his ultimate weapon, a jet-powered, missile-launching suit of armor, to fight evil.
-- Until next time,
S. Lee
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