Despite previous comments, Robert Downey Jr. says he would "happily" return to the MCU as Iron Man after his Oscar win
The Oppenheimer actor recently took home his first Academy Award
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“Happily. It’s too integral a part of my DNA. That role chose me,” Downey toldEsquirewhen asked if he’d ever return. “And look, I always say, never, ever bet against Kevin Feige. It is a losing bet. He’s the house. He will always win.”
The actor won his first Oscar for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, a historical drama based on the life of American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Downey played Lewis Strauss, former Acting United States Secretary of Commerce and an original member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. In the film, Strauss is one of Oppenheimer’s biggest enemies, and is one of the men that ultimately brought about the scientist’s downfall (before he’s given his own dose of karma).
Downey’s latest Marvel comment comes as a surprise, with some thinking he took shade at the MCU during his BAFTA …
