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Robert Downey Jr has been Tony Stark aka Iron-Man for Marvel fanatics around the world but the actor is clear, in real life, he is not the beloved superhero
Robert Downey Jr
But both Disney's Marvel Studio and the actor benefited from the mirror-like personas of the Hollywood star and Iron-Man. "Initially, by creating and associating and synergising with Tony Stark and the Marvel Universe... And being a good company man, but also being a little off kilter, being creative and getting into all these other partnerships, it was a time when... what do they say? Owners start looking like their pets," he said.
The 54-year-old actor earned USD 50 million as backend profit participation for "Avengers" (2012), and he made USD 75 million for "Avengers: Infinity War". Calling himself Marvel's "trust fund kid", Downey Jr noted post "Avengers: Endgame" an unknown road waits for him.
"There's always a dependency on something that feels like a sure thing. It's the closest I will ever come to being a trust fund kid," he said of his time with the studio.
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