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Blu Ray also sat down with Drew Pearce, Don Cheadle and Robert Downey Jr:
“How does Iron Man 3 compare to the first two movies in the superhero franchise?
Robert Downey Jr: This time, I feel that Iron Man 3 — without taking it too seriously — is about transcendence. It’s about this thing that you become identified with. Are you capable of letting go of it because it’s impeding your actual human experience? What is an actual human experience, and who’s been humanizing Tony all along? The nice thing, and the reason I can get onboard with this, is Rhodey. Tony has a history with someone who really knows him, and also really knows the ins and outs of what you’re supposed to do in a legitimate military or conflict situation. Then he has someone who also knows the ins and outs of his emotional life. What you achieve is about the human being you become; it’s not about how many toys or how much fame, or how much fear you can instill in your enemies.
Don Cheadle: I think Iron Man 3 really pays off on the promise that the first two movies had, and we get to see all of these characters in a much deeper way. We certainly get to see the relationship between Pepper Potts and Tony Stark in a much deeper way. Plus, there are very real things that are happening inside this huge CGI world, which helps to really ground the movie. Shane and Drew have injected humor too. These things make the whole experience not just about walking in and watching a bunch of pretend things fly around, but there are real-world things happening. It’s a lot of fun.
Drew Pearce: Coming into this project, Shane said he wanted to bring in lots of different genres because a movie like this is sometimes just regarded as a superhero movie. One of the great things about the first Iron Man that we always discussed was the fact that it’s as much a romantic-comedy as it is an action movie. Marvel let us cook the stew for as long as possible before they saw what we had, which was great.
IM3 has the unique distinction of being a sequel to two different movies: Iron Man 2 and Marvel’s The Avengers.
Robert Downey Jr: It’s a complex thing. [Marvel Studios’ President] Kevin Feige and Shane Black were the ones who really had to hammer out where all these strings go, and how everything moves something when you pull it.
Drew Pearce: I think what’s interesting about the Marvel universe is the way that we take ideas and characters from the comic books, but there is no version of Tony Stark in the comic books that’s exactly like the one in the Marvel cinematic universe. I think one of the brilliant things that Marvel does is they use great actors like Rebecca Hall, Guy Pearce and Sir Ben Kingsley, and it ends up being a bit more symbiotic. To be honest, it’s a bit more old-fashioned. You end up writing to the great actors as much as you do to your inspirations in the comics and the ideas you have.
Shane Black has said Robert lives and breathes exactly like Tony Stark. How much of Tony Stark is in you and how much of Robert Downey Jr. is in Tony Stark?
Robert Downey Jr: Don and I have had many conversations about this. When you’re looking at the back nine and you’re not a kid anymore, you start to realize how much you share things with a character like Tony Stark. I’ll never be more like Tony than I was three weeks before we started shooting the first movie. Back then, I was like, “Wow, look at this role I get to play!”
How has your relationship with Stark changed?
Robert Downey Jr: The older you get and the more life continues to whittle you down and smash your ego, the less you identify with things that are essentially just metaphors for narcissism or vain glory, or deep-seated fear and all that stuff. As Iron Man has become more real and more ‘out there’ in his own way, I’ve become just moderately more humble and more humanized.
Drew Pearce: My sense of humor — along with Shane and Robert’s — is quite cynical and is about undercutting things. Weirdly, even though I think the tone of the movie is somewhat sarcastic or cheeky at times, I actually think the overall tone of the movie is Capra-esque. There’s a bit of hope and a bit of love. It’s sincere, and Favreau set a brilliant template for that in the first movie. For all the myth and all the comic book themes, what he always came back to was grown-up emotional reality, and you see that mostly in the Tony Stark/Pepper Potts relationship. In this movie, you see it in the relationships with Killian and Maya as well.
We get to see a lot more of Rhodey in Iron Man 3. Did you prefer scenes in the armor or out?
Don Cheadle: I prefer being out of the suit. The suit is great and it’s great to be able to achieve all the things that we want to achieve with the CGI and the motion capture. But I had the most fun running around with Robert and us just physically going after it. This iteration of the film really is something that Robert and I talked about after the second movie. He came to me and said, “Now, let’s try and really kick this relationship off, and really try to see who these guys are.” That’s why a lot of fun for me in this movie involved being able to do a lot of action outside of the suit, and getting to work with the stunt team and doing a lot of the cable work. That was just a big thrill for me. It was like I was a big kid being able to play with the best toys.
How did Iron Patriot come about?
Drew Pearce: One of the things in the stew of this movie is the idea of symbols. We thought about the way that in the modern age, symbols are more powerful than the facts themselves, or of the substance behind them. Even though Iron Patriot as a concept in the comic books has nothing to do with what we play with here, the outfit plays into that idea because it’s such a potent-looking super-heroic notion. Quite early on, he went into the pot because we love the idea of playing around with that. We also liked the theme, as well as comedy and the reality of the fact that there’s a superhero getting rebranded in order to make it more popular, which feels like it was something that could genuinely happen in the real world. That was our reason for including him”
Check out the rest of the interview at Blu-Ray
