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by concede_pluto 9y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Downey_Jr.#2001.E2.80.932007:_Career_comeback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Downey_Jr.#2001.E2.80.9... :
> Downey was able to return to the big screen only after Mel Gibson [...] paid Downey's insurance bond
> [...] for which producer Joel Silver withheld 40 percent of his salary until after production wrapped as insurance against his addictive behavior. Similar clauses have become standard in his contracts since then.
He's going to carry this stigma for a looong time. If he were only a supporting actor without influential friends he wouldn't be worth the risk; he'd have been fucked.
- cannonedhamster 9y agoI'd hardly characterize it as a death sentence though. He's been able to work in his field and found a way to make millions by pretending in front of a camera. If he were only a supporting actor, there's a good chance no one would have noticed at all.
- nostrademons 9y agoI was completely unaware of Robert Downey Jr's drug-addled past - I just knew him as Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes. I think the public's memory may be a lot shorter than yours.
- concede_pluto 9y agoThe problem isn't the audience, it's every employer he'll ever have.