Robert Downey Jr. was rejected by Marvel for 'Iron Man' role?

Actor Robert Downey Jr. is kwn for playing role of Tony Stark /Iron Man in Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). He portrayed character on-screen for around 12 years. He bid farewell to his role in year 2019 with Avengers: Endgame. However, t many fans are aware of fact that things were so bad at time that Marvel refused to cast him point-blank.

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Iron Man Trivia - When Marvel rejected RDJ for Iron Man

According to Hindustan Times, director Jon Favreau recalled in an interview with Rolling Stone in year 2008 what Marvel told him. He said that under any circumstances y are t prepared to hire him for any price. A dejected Favreau n called up actor and gave him bad news. He said, he fought, tried, and did what he could, but unfortunately it’s going to stop here. To this, Downey replied saying he is going to hold out hope. However, this spirit of actor inspired Favreau to intensify his efforts, and rest is all we kw.

Besides this, in a 2014 radio interview, director once said that it was his job as a director to show that Robert was best choice creatively. And w, eventually, Marvel Universe is biggest franchise in film industry.  filmmaker furr continued by saying everybody knew he was talented. Certainly, by studying Iron Man role and developing that script he realised that character seemed to line-up with Robert in all good and bad ways. Besides this, story of Iron Man was really story of Robert’s career.

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All about Marvel's Iron man - Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark /Iron Man is considered as pioneer of Marvel Cinematic Universe. His first outing as character in Iron Man was in year 2008 and was also first film in MCU. actor later reprised role briefly in Iron Man 2 (2010),  Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013), Avengers: of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Besides this, he was also seen in a special appearance in a few or Marvel films as well.

Iron Man Cast

• Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man
• Terrence Howard as James "Rhodey" Rhodes
• Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger
• Shaun Toub as Ho Yinsen
• Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia "Pepper" Potts

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