Robert Downey Jr. was insulted in Moscow

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Actors who played the main characters in the film "The Avengers" arrived in Moscow. An unprecedented case: usually, either one main star or a couple of minor ones reaches us. Yesterday was everyone: Robert Downey Jr., and Scarlett Johansson, and rising stars Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner. Foreign guests got stuck in the elevator, drank vodka, admired the sights of the capital, standing in Moscow traffic jams. The actors were amazed by the hot Russian fans - they had not seen the fans hanging on the trees for a long time.

The actors arrived in Moscow at five in the morning. Mark Ruffalo admitted at a press conference that he was pleasantly surprised, with a breeze swept through the capital.

- There were absolutely no traffic jams. Is Moscow such a rare city? - he asked journalists. The answer was a friendly laugh. Later, the naive performer of the role of the Hulk understood why.

The most pleasant in communication and friendly was Tom Hidleston, who played the negative character Loki in The Avengers. He even tried to revive the photocall: he started fooling around and instantly turned his colleagues on the set from prim statues into laughing, living people.

- Let's start a fight? - he offered to Robert, and he playfully stood in front of Tom in a fighting stance.

“This is not my first time in Moscow,” Hiddleston later told “Cleo”. - Before, I know you had a problem with bananas. I love these fruits very much and could not find it anywhere.

Apparently, Tommy was in Moscow as a child, when bananas and other fruits really needed to be looked for. We assured the actor that now everything is in order with the bananas, I don’t want to eat. He smiled.

During the press conference, Tom and Chris Hemsworth was simply killed by the question of one erudite journalist. She asked if they had read the Scandinavian sagas and gave a couple of hard-to-pronounce names of the epics about the ancient gods. Not only Tom and Chris fell into a stupor, but all the other actors. The film crew at this moment so resembled the Losers in the exam that timid chuckles among the media soon gave way to thunderous laughter.

Tom tried to get out - told how many comics they had studied. The story about comics seemed to Russian journalists quite ridiculous, and the laughter in the audience only intensified. Which, by the way, surprised Tom very much.

At first, Robert Downey Jr. was in a great mood, looking forward to a tour of Moscow and joking a lot.

- I heard that platinum vodka will be poured in the program … - he said thoughtfully and immediately added that this is such an American humor, in fact, he does not drink now.

The mood of the "iron man" soon changed. The journalist Artyom, known among his peers for his consistently eccentric questions, easily asked Downey about his past drug problem. Robert's face changed, got up and, interrupting the interview in mid-sentence, left. According to rumors, he was so offended that he wanted to fly back immediately. He was tearfully begged to come to the premiere. But he was so angry that he refused to pose for photographers for a long time. And this is understandable. Considering that now Robert does not drink or even smoke, is raising a two-month-old son and is happy in his family life, the topic of the past fall into sin is not only unpleasant for him. It pains him to remember his addiction, which once practically ruined his career and personal life. (Fortunately, by the time of the premiere, Robert cooled down and even announced to the guests that he had decided to learn Russian).

The adventures of the "avengers" in Moscow did not end there. On the way to the premiere, all the actors were locked in an elevator! The elevator got stuck, and a good hour, while it was being repaired, the actors spent time in cramped quarters, but not offended. Happiness that no one has a fear of confined space.

Scarlett Johansson surprised the journalists by going to Minsk to study her own roots.

- My mother is from Minsk, and I really want to explore my ancestry, to visit Belarus.

- Maybe you know a little Russian too? In the film, your heroine is of Russian origin.

- My Russian leaves much to be desired. I learned the phrases purely mechanically, - the actress confessed embarrassedly, but nevertheless repeated the name of her character in Russian after the journalist: Black Widow.

So many fans came to the premiere (each of the arriving actors has a whole army of fans) that the crowd stretched out all over the Arbat. Two girls climbed a tree.

“We came to see Robert and Tommy and Chris, of course,” the fans said. Jokes about the nest (the girls spent 4 hours in the tree), woodpeckers and a possible fall did not stop all this time.

The event was spoiled by a disgusting organization. The PR people of the rental company proudly walked among the Hollywood stars, making it difficult to photograph the latter.

In addition, according to rumors, many tickets for the stellar premiere were sold out (usually the composition of the guests is strictly controlled, invitations are sent out). As a result, the “new Russians” who survived in the 90s by some miracle came into the hall, swearing obscenities and organizing fights with photographers.