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Robert Downey, Jr. Not Taking Any S*** From You

Posted by Brian Fairbanks

 

A local radio DJ in L.A. is causing quite a stir (albeit a hilarious one) with a newly-released tape of him grilling Robert Downey, Jr. with probing questions on a press junket for Tropic Thunder.

However, it's Downey who emerges unscathed, with his trademark wry humor and quick-thinking responses. He never loses his cool and covers his ass at every turn...

Click this link to listen... here's a partial rundown:

1) DJ asks who Downey would rather have a brew with and smoke a blunt with, Jack Black or Ben Stiller?

2) If, he goes on, Downey could have a love scene in a movie with Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, or Paris Hilton, who would he choose?

3) Which actor would RDJ want to get him out of Vietnam should he have been stuck there during the war?

4) Are gas prices affecting the movie star?

5) Apparently, some other guy gets in on it and asks: Who's a hot black chick in Hollywood right now?

6) What's the one Robert Downey, Jr. movie he would show off to a people at his house?

Listen to find out his answers. 

Via Hollywood Outbreak. 

 

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Posted Aug 05 2008, 02:41 PM
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Simon said:

Holy moly that interviewer is a complete dick. How the hell do people like him actually end up being able to talk to people like Downey?

Downey does handle it extremely well, and he does have a brilliant sense of humour.

Unfortunately, while I was originally quite excited by Tropic Thunder from the first trailer (Downey looks to play the role amazingly), on second/third trailers it would seem it descends into very base, lowbrow humour... a child stabbing Stiller, and Stiller hurling it off a bridge? Looks like something from Meet the Spartans or Disaster Movie...

And the last thing we need is more of that tripe

August 5, 2008 6:33 PM

thinkywritey said:

I never stopped loving Robert Downey Jr.

August 6, 2008 11:58 AM

About Brian Fairbanks

Brian Fairbanks, the Senior National Political Correspondent for Nerve, is a filmmaker living in Brooklyn or New Orleans, depending on the season. He is a heavily-armed advocate of gun control.

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Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook will be published in fall 2008. Emily lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with her cat, but just one . . . so far.

Brian Fairbanks is a filmmaker living in the wilds of Brooklyn. He previously wrote for the Hartford Courant and Gawker. He won the Williamsburg Spelling Bee once. He loves cats, women with guns, and burning books.

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