![]() ![]() Basically, from jump I realized he was not going to make it easy for us to execute our creative plan. ![]() There’s a few snippets of it where I’m feeding him ice cream and that was all shot at that point on Susan’s iPhone, because she just captured it in a fly-on-the-wall kind of way. And his increasing interest in enlisting Kevin Ford to come over in the non sequitur side of things and somehow embrace the formlessness of it while knowing what our intention was the whole time.ĭad came out to the Hamptons three times over three years, and the third time he came out we didn’t film much because he was really not - it wouldn’t have been respectful. RDJ: Everything is a calculated risk, and this had a lot of slippery elements - one being his declining health, the other being his disinterest in what Chris Smith and I thought we were doing. succumbed to Parkinson’s in July 2021 at age 85. became something you don’t see often: candor from two generations of a film family that got chewed up but managed to come out the other side intact, bonding and healing before Downey Sr. On full display is all the mad wit that informed Downey Sr’s films ( Paul Thomas Anderson considered him a formative influence and put Downey Sr. Robert Downey Jr., who spurned Smith’s offer to make a docu about his life and career, became more of a central figure onscreen, along with producing with wife and Team Downey partner Susan Downey. What began as a docu about Robert Downey Sr, the ’60s counterculture director of avant-garde films including Putney Swope and Greaser’s Palace, Sr.evolved into much more as the process stretched over three years due to the pandemic and the decline of the subject’s health. EXCLUSIVE: After festival premieres in Telluride, AFI and New York, the Chris Smith-directed documentary Sr. ![]()
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