Robert Downey Jr. Earnings for Iron Man Movies

Robert Downey Jr. replenished his budget well, starring in several films about Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He portrayed eccentric billionaire Tony Stark onscreen from 2008 to 2019, until his character was killed off in Avengers: Endgame. Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.Photo source: Marvel Studios.For his work, Downey Jr. has won critical acclaim and public love, but not only. In the end, in total, he received an impressive $435 million from Marvel Studios over 11 years of cooperation. It started in 2008 with a modest $2.5 million and ended in 2019 with $75 million.Moreover, before accepting the fateful role, Robert thought a little more, because he had never played a superhero before, but was a good dramatic actor, but with problems of self-control. To reconnect with the past and once again not go wild, before filming Downey Jr. I went through a special drug rehabilitation program. The studio, for its part, also considered Nicolas Cage and Tom Cruise for the role of Iron Man.