Robert Downey Jr. on his relationship with Jude Law and Guy Ritchie while making Sherlock Holmes 2
Robert Downey Jr.: I feel about Jude, the way Sherlock feels about John. You know, I just love the guy. We're like brothers. The funny thing too is: we have this very gentlemanly relationship with each other where we kind of show up and set up shop and then work our asses off. And tear through fights and work through scenes and have this incredibly close relationship. And like good, I'll speak for him, trained actors, you know. And I kind of learned it by proxy. You just turn it off at the end of the day. Go back to your life. And then come in and do it again in the morning. So there's very much the sense of he and I are like roommates in this big trial. Because it's always a bear getting through all of the different crucibles that it takes to try to get something like this right. So I just couldn't ask for a better partner.
I think what Guy was really able to do this time, was be able to concentrate a lot more on the details of what we were doing day to day. And the story had kind of been taken care of. And so there wasn't a huge amount of work to do there. And I can tell that he's really, really giddy and happy about some of the text stuff he was able to do. And to keep infusing this trilogy at minimum I'm imagining. With that kind of Guy Ritchie style. In addition to that I believe that he was really outgoing and trying to make it a collaborative process. And he's got a great sense of humor, which really comes in handy when the going gets tough. So I just love the guy. And I think he'd be heart-pressed to do a better job than he did.
Interview with Robert Downey Jr. for the release of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
