Robert Downey Jr Walking Out Of An Interview In 2015 Is Incredibly Uncomfortable To Watch

Robbie Fox5/30/2023 7:50 PM

This clip of Robert Downey Jr walking out of an interview in 2015 is going re-viral this week because of how uncomfortable and awkward it is, and I gotta say - it definitely lives up to the hype. It's tough to sit through.

The interviewer begins with a question about RDJ's political stances changing post-prison - referencing an interview he gave fifteen years prior, in 2000 - and follows it up by basically asking if he ever thinks about relapsing and going back into the darkest period he's ever had - all while fumbling his words and throwing in about a hundred nervous "uhhhs" for good measure.

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From the moment the interviewer started his whole "Well, I don't know how comfortable you are talking about YOURSELF" routine after sensing RDJ's confusion in the political question, I was just counting the seconds til Iron Man got up and walked out.

I understand that journalists gotta dig deep and get their hard hitting questions every now and then, but immediately taking a brief 'Avengers' film junket interview into a super political direction and asking only about the worst moments in the star's life makes you a superdouche in my opinion. If you're Barbara Walters or Robin Roberts and you've got Downey for a few hours in his living room, it's one thing.

If you're this guy from the local news….

….ask about the fuckin Avengers and be grateful Tony Stark gave you a few minutes of his time, or don't do the interview. It ain't your "gotcha" moment to take down Robert Downey Jr because of something he said almost twenty years prior.

I actually thought Downey was way too nice to him, as well. I woulda loved a full Stark style takedown, but he just decided they were done there and left. Very zen of him.

P.S. Loved seeing this camera guy feeling the awkwardness in the room….