Weird Science to Iron Man…drug addiction to Hollywood’s most in-demand and highest paid actors. Sound Familiar? My pop culture mavens are screaming…that’s Robert Downey Jr.!!!
Yep, our very own Tony Stark took his personal reinvention to a Whole. Notha. Level off screen! I loved the guy in Pretty in Pink and Charlie Chaplin, forgave him for Tropic Thunder and have him etched in time after the ending of Avengers - Endgame. But it was those middle years that I held my breath as a fan. In between 1996 to 2001, he unquestionably played the role of a lifetime. Downey played himself. He sped down a road that included drug addition, rehab, jail, a tanking career and eventually self-discovery and ultimately recovery.
I was nine years old when Weird Science came out. I remember really wanting Ian, the preppy bully that Downey played in the film to get what was coming to him. Payback, ya know? And of course,...
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