This Friday, the couple's latest collaboration, The Judge, will open. Since then, Susan has overseen most of Robert's non-Marvel movies, either as an executive producer ( Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 2010's Due Date), or as the film's main producer (2009's Sherlock Holmes and its 2011 sequel, his biggest non-Marvel hits by far).
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The couple first met while working on the 2003 psychological horror film Gothika - it was Susan's first movie as a full-fledged producer, and it was one of Robert's first roles after he was fired from the Fox series Ally McBeal following two post-jail drug arrests. But it's one that may not exist if Susan was not in Robert's life, not only as his wife, but also as a tenacious and meticulous film producer. The timeline of Robert's career resurgence - the embarrassing arrests in the 1990s, the nearly year-long jail term in 2000, the hard-won sobriety and standout roles in films like 2005's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and 2007's Zodiac, and the career rocket fuel that was 2008's Iron Man and all it's wrought - is well-trod territory, a great Hollywood comeback story told time and again. "I guess I enjoy corralling that."ĭowney's accomplishments - enviable for anyone aspiring for genuine success as a Hollywood producer - are important to acknowledge, because, for many, her biggest achievement is helping to transform her husband, Robert Downey Jr., from a drug-addled washout into the most valuable movie star in the world. "I have no idea why, and this is other's observations of me - I tend to be in the realm of these very complicated personalities," she said. When asked to describe her style as a producer, Downey smiled wryly. All told, the films she's worked on have grossed nearly $1.2 billion domestically, and $2.7 billion worldwide. It guided her to a prestigious film school, and into a sturdy, successful career as a movie producer ( The Reaping, The Invasion, The Brave One, Orphan, Whiteout, The Book of Eli, Unknown) with mega-producer Joel Silver. I loved entertaining, big Hollywood movies."Īnd that childhood passion has come to define Downey's entire life. "Whenever there would be a new one, I'd make my mom go get it for me. "I had a poster in my room of all the Academy Award-winning movies ," Downey told BuzzFeed News last month at the Toronto International Film Festival. Downey had cajoled her local Chicago suburb movie theater into giving her a giant promotional banner for Cruise's character-driven family drama Rain Man. But it wasn't a dreamy pinup of the actor from teen-bait fare like Risky Business or Top Gun. Like so many starry-eyed teenage girls in the 1980s, Susan Downey had a poster of Tom Cruise on her bedroom wall.
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