With Robert Downey Jr. having gone from being an edgy young actor to a sobered-up icon for all ages, to the point where he had a blast getting slimed at the Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards this year, it does make sense that he would put the Team Downey stamp on quirky fare like Sweet Tooth.
It does help that Christian Convery looks so damned adorable as Gus.
(Even if it’s admittedly hard for me to mentally bypass the connection between this show’s animal-human hybrids and the talking beasts of RDJ’s Dolittle.)
As he explained in the video, he was taken aback by the “emotional breadth” of Jeff Lemire’s storytelling, and Susan Downey shared that the character of Gus was their metaphorical true north when developing Sweet Tooth, with his optimism as a shining beacon throughout the process.