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On Thursday, Downey Jr., 58, and his wife Susan, 49, attended a special screening of theirNetflixdocumentarySr.at the streaming service’sFYSeeevent space in Los Angeles
The couple, who met in 2003 and got married in 2005, held hands as they posed for photos, with theIron Manstar sporting short hair after heshaved his headback in October for his role in the upcoming HBO seriesThe Sympathizer.
Downey Jr. andSr.director Chris Smith took part in a panel about the making ofSr. Thursday, which the actororiginally premiered at Telluride Film Festivalin September.
The documentary, which the couple produced together, centers around the Marvel Cinematic Universe actor’s relationship withhis fatherRobert Downey Sr. during the elder Downey’s decline with Parkinson’s Disease.
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Downey Jr.’s relationship with his wife has made an impact on the actor’s Hollywood career; filmmakerGuy Ritchie, who directed the actor in 2009’sSherlock Holmes, toldThe Hollywood Reporterin 2014 that Susan “facilitated” his casting in the role while she otherwise worked with Ritchie, 54, 2008 movieRocknRolla.
“If Susan hadn’t been in the room, Robert probably wouldn’t have become Sherlock Holmes,” the director said at the time. Susan went on to produce the 2009 movie and its sequel, also starring her husband. “She facilitated it, definitely.”
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Downey Jr. recently shouted out his wife in April as he shared a video montage toInstagramon his 58th birthday and highlighted photos of the couple’s children anda nod to his “sweet marriage.”
“And the sweet 17 of marriage — sublime!” Downey Jr. captioned an image with his eyes closed laying in his wife’s lap, with Susan smiling softly while looking down at him.
The Downeys founded their own production company, Team Downey — through which they producedSr.— back in 2010.
Sr.is “a lovingly irreverentportrait of the life, career and last days of maverick filmmaker Robert Downey Sr., whose rebellious spirit infused decades of counterculture movie-making,” according to an official synopsis for the documentary.
The synopsis for the film adds thatSr.“widens the lens from Downey’s art to the life with which it was deeply intertwined, including an intimate examination of his relationship with son Robert Downey Jr.”
The documentary includes anexamination of Downey Jr.’s struggle with addictionand his father’s influence on that via candid conversations between the two men shot before the elder Downey’sdeath in 2021 at age 85.
“I also hate puff pieces. There’s so many examples of it right now where everyone’s trying to get their narrative out there,” he said at the time, perTHR. “I won’t give the example but there’s just so much of it that you kind of go, that just reeks of bulls—.”
Sr. isstreamingon Netflix now.
source: people.com
