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Before He Became Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. Reveals He Was Almost Cast as This DC Villain · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: With Killian Murphy and Robert Downey Junior star in Christopher
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Speaker 2: Nolan's masterpiece Oppenheimer with Killian in the lead role, and
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Speaker 2: his six film relationship with the director goes all the
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Speaker 2: way back to Batman begins when Killy was cast as
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Speaker 2: a villain Scarecrow, but Robert Downey Junior just revealed movie
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Speaker 2: history might have been very different, as he was also
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Speaker 2: considered to play Batman's nemesis n five. Robert told the
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Speaker 2: crowd during a career retrospective at Los Angeles' American Cinema Tech,
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Speaker 2: I heard about the role and I was like, I'm Scarecrow,
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Speaker 2: and then I remember, meaning Nolan for teen realized he
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Speaker 2: doesn't seem like he's really leaning in on this interview.
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Speaker 2: He was polite and all that, but you could tell
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Speaker 2: when someone's thinking the collaboration's not going anywhere. Robert Downey
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Speaker 2: Junior there who clearly made enough of an impression on
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Speaker 2: Nolan that he thought of him for Oppenheimer, which is
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Speaker 2: on v O D
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood