And it turns out the Oscar winning actor of Crazy Heart isn’t overly concerned that his performance in Iron Man is a minor footnote in his career, as he didn’t have the best time working on the blockbuster.
Iron Man is rightfully lauded for being the Marvel movie that emphatically kicked off their cinematic universe.
But while Robert Downey Jr’s confident, but wounded, performance as Tony Stark and Jon Favreau’s mixture of comedy and action were traits that went on to become a mainstay of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jeff Bridges’s Obadiah Stane didn’t just fail to make it past the original, but has already been forgotten to history.