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Robert Downey Jr. has three big movies coming out in the next few months and has made a comeback after years of drug and alcohol abuse and resulting legal trouble. He’s been married to his producer wife Susan Levin for three years after meeting her on the set of Gothika in 2003, and seems to have stayed sober since. Downey was married when he met the woman would became his second wife, and his first wife surely put up with a lot. He was married to wife Deborah Falconer from 1992 to 2004, so if he was hooking up on set he must have been cheating on her.
Downey gave what looks like a new interview to Scottish paper The Daily Record, but it’s hard to tell because they don’t give the context or even state that they spoke with him. He certainly has a lot of controversial things to say.
On being wasted on set and hooking up with co-stars
He said: “I think stuff like ‘That was a fun day but, God, I ate way too much rice before lunch’. Or ‘Did I b**g her?’. That type of stuff. I know exactly what movies I was almost continuously drunk on when we filmed.
“And I remember certain colleagues having a lot of fun on the set with me.
“Every second star goes to bed with his co-star because they spend so much time together.
“But I’m not going to start reeling off the names.”
On his 14 year old son making him feel old
His son Indio with first wife Deborah Falconer, to whom he was married for 12 years, is now 14 .
Spending time with him can make the actor feel like he is struggling to keep up.
He said: “Half the time when I’m with my kid, I just feel like I’m the schmuck who drives the mini-van.
“I think, like any parent of a teenager, I’m struggling to stay current, see if anything is changing with him, see if he feels emotionally healthy, see if he looks like there’s anything that needs to be addressed.
“And I manage the fact he needs to have a fire lit under his ass to meet the status-quo scholastically.
“We horseplay or take a walk and I’m sure he’d rather be with his friends half the time.
“But there’s that little gap where his social life hasn’t come together so he might as well hang out with me.
“There’s those moments where I have my little Saturday nights with him. And because things are so busy and life is not easy, it’s less exhausting when it’s going pretty well.
“You see those little windows of enjoyment and you really look forward to them. It’s revitalising.”
On working hard after having a lot of time off
“There’s some constants there between my life now and my life in my wilder days,” he said. “But the funny thing is, this is probably the most backbreaking, ass-kicking work year I’ve had.
“It’s also been the most manageable year I’ve ever had, so I think in a nutshell that says it.
“I no longer feel like I’m tying my own shoe-laces together.
“I feel I can leap buildings in a single bound, but I also feel like I’m not underestimating how difficult it is, that life is really really hard, that I need a lot of support and I need to stay focused in the day-to-day stuff.
[All quoted text from The Daily Record]
Some of Robert Downey’s co-stars before he met his second wife include a then 22-year-old Katie Holmes in 2000’s Wonder Boys, a 19-year-old Heather Graham in 1999’s Bowfinger, and Darryl Hannah in 1998’s Gingerbread Man.
Last month we did a post on celebrity on-set cheaters, and the list included such classic romances as Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini in 1950’s Stromboli and Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in 1963’s Cleopatra. Modern cheaters include Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan in 2007’s Grindhouse and Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck on the set of Gigli in 2003. As Downey points out, there are surely many more old and new that we’ll never hear about.
Robert Downey Jr. is shown at ShoWest on 3/13/08, thanks to PRPhotos.
Written by Celebitchy
Posted in Infidelity, Robert Downey Jr.
13 Responses to “Robert Downey Jr. says 1/2 of all actors sleep with co-stars”
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He’s H_O_T!!
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He looks awesome. I’ve always liked him. Glad he made through to the other side with his addictions. He was robbed of the Oscar for Chaplin.
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When listing off famous cheaters, how about we dont’ forget the most notorious cheaters of our day? I am sick of everybody elevating Brad and Angelina to the status of Zeus and Hera while all they can do is criticize Jennifer Aniston’s cellulite or lack thereof.
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Must we bring up Brangelina and Aniston on every damned post? Aren’t the ten million back and forths on their own threads/articles enough?
Geez.
Didn’t realise Downey was married when he met his second wife. Wonder how that went down?
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Why Bring up Brangelina in other posts? Exactly.
I hate the Brangelina thread. There are always a bunch a of crazy fans jumping and shouting at other posters all the time, and can’t talk like normal human beings. I realized the only way to visit this site quietly is to avoid the brangelina thread. So please don’t spoil my fun. The world is big. Let others have their own celebrity fun.
Robert Downey Jr rocks. A natural-born actor and a beautiful man. Glad he made it through the dark days.
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ditto H.
He is one of my favorite actors of all times….dont know if he’s beaten his demons but I sure hope he has.
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so….what dudes that were costars did he sleep with anyway? that is all thank you
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He is a very good actor and seems to be stable after some tough years dealing with the demons of addiction. Iron Man is supposed to be a good movie. I plan to see it.
Please those of you still hung up on the 2005 divorce of two people you do not even know get some professional help. It is 2008, move on. It is not normal or rational to rant as a few of you still do.
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a news report on imdb from 15 October 2003 (WENN)states that Indio was 10 at the time…thus he would’ve been born, say in +/-1993, making him now approximately 15…so that article is probably fairly current.
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I’m really happy that he seems to be doing so well. He has real talent & that can’t be undone by drug use/ abuse. Unlike LL…
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I hate this guy. No actress with his track record would get the number of chances he’s been given. Sure he was good in Chaplin — but he’s done a lot of shit too, yet he still keeps working. And claiming everybody else does it is a classic excuse to justify your own bad behaviour.
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