Robert Downey Jr. remembers getting arrested for smoking pot at Disneyland
Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man
Robert Downey Jr. is an simple cinematic icon, thanks in no small half to his decade-long function as Tony Stark/Iron Man within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Nonetheless, the actor went by a infamous tough patch earlier than he discovered himself atop the A-list. Whereas he’s fortunately left these troubled days behind him, he’s not above poking enjoyable at his darker days. Like right this moment on the D23 Expo’s Disney Legends Ceremony when Downey Jr. recalled the time he acquired caught smoking pot at Disneyland.
Taking the stage as one of many newly inducted Disney Legends, Downey Jr. joked about his first journey to the theme park (by way of EW):
“Right here’s a little bit of trivia for you. The very first time I went to Disneyland I used to be transported to a different place — inside moments of being arrested. I used to be delivered to a surprisingly pleasant processing middle, given a strict warning, and returned to, if reminiscence serves, one very disillusioned group chaperone. I’ve been sitting on that disgrace for some time and I‘m simply going to launch it right here tonight.”
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Downey Jr. continued, “I want to make amends to whoever needed to detain me for smoking pot in a gondola with out a license. And I don’t wanna additional confuse the difficulty by insinuating that pot smoking licenses for the gondola are in any method obtainable.”
Hey, even Iron Artificial some lower than admirable choices in his time. Together with his days of stoned Disneyland adventures previously, Downey Jr. turned his speech to his current, reflecting on his MCU household and his time as Tony Stark:
“I’m delighted to be amongst such a wealthy and various group of people, all in search of to mirror the various challenges of life by the lens of artistic expression. In my opinion, enjoying Tony over a few years, the thematic concept that know-how can information our species in direction of enlightenment or destruction, it’s been a very worthwhile and ongoing meditation. Actually, it’s been an amazing present… I get to stay a fan… Right here’s to the longer term.”
Hopefully Sony and Marvel/Disney can get their act collectively in order that future contains Stark’s protege, Spider-Man.
