2008 Robert Downey Jr. film that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe drove him “absolutely crazy.”The Oscar winner, 72, looked back on his career with Vanity Fair and explained why he was taken aback by filming, director Jon Favreau and the script itself.“It was Marvel’s first adventure into making movies.
It was so lucky to have Jon on there and [Robert] Downey, because both of them are so, they’re terrific improvisers,” Bridges said.Of the shoot, he said the filmmakers spent a couple of weeks working on the script and rehearsing together. “Because we didn’t like the original script and we thought, ‘Oh yeah, we fixed this, fixed that,’” Bridges, who played supervillain Obadiah Stane alongside Downey Jr.
and Gwyneth Paltrow, said.Then on the first day of filming, Bridges said that “Marvel kind of threw out our script that we had been working on, said, ‘No, that’s no good.
It’s got to be this and that.’”“There was a lot of confusion about what our script was, what we were gonna say, you know?” he explained. “And we’d spend hours in one of our trailers going over lines, and saying ‘Oh you play my part or I’ll play your part,’ exploring how we were going to do it.”Due to the amount of uncertainty over the screenplay, Favreau, 55, opted to hire script consultants.
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