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on the set
The Robert Downey Jr audiences knew trom Less Than Zero and Chances Are is history
Downey hasn't retired, he's iust been waddling around like a duck on the set ot the film Chapim.
a picture where he portrays the great silent comic And the transition trom teen brat to serious
actor hasn't been an easy one
I leel like the I rst 10 years all ted up to me having just enough experience
to be able to take it on and try to make it work" says the 27-year-okJ actor
Making it work sapped his energy and required all his creative and artistic
efforts
"Jus! even the body language, it s not American It's about a British per
son It's real different," he says
Downey says his talent came a long way to do the part
"(There were) so (many) technical improvements to be made on Robert
Downey Jr so that he could be Charlie Chaplm and it's kind ot like new and
improved Robert iust so he could loot the bill" he says
And after portraying one ot those great artists, tie says his acting never will be the same
'l can't ever realty do another film without preparing tor it m the fashion that I prepared tor Chart*
wtuch was doing a tot ot preparation so that I was free to enjoy it when I was doing it as opposed to
going m and winging n a By Greg Srisavasdi. Daily Brum. U of California Los Angeles
video calendar
A brief took at December releases
Patriot Games, Paramount. 1124 Midnight Clear, Columbia 12? Lethal Weapon 3, Warner
12 2 Beautiful Dreamers. Hemdale 12? Fire Within, New York Video 12/2, Universal
Soldier, Live 12/9 Housesitter, MCA 129 Until They Sail. MGM 129 Operation Crossbow.
MGM 129 Adventures in Spying. Columbia 12'16 Clan Act. Warner. 12/16 Poison Ivy.
Columbia. 12/16 Prelude to a Kiss. Fox 12/16 Hellmaster. A I P Home Video 12/16
Boomerang. Paramount 1222 Hansel & Gretel. Paramount 1222 Big Girls Don't Cry.
Columbia 12/23 Butty the Vampire Slayer, Fox 1223 Sex Crimes. Atlas 12/23 Talons ol
the Eagle. MCA. 12.23 Out on a Limb, MCA 1223 Oh What a Night, Columbia 1230 Death
Dreams. Columbia. 1230
quotable
“I wasn’t out to make any kind of particular feminist
statement; it was just how I felt as a woman.”
—Demi Moore on her exposure in Vanity Fair