“Robert WAS Tony Stark!” - Terrence Howard PRAISES Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man Performance
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Actor Robert Downey Jr. joins Jemele to discuss his life, career, and advice he would give to his younger self. In this episode, Jemele and Robert discuss the importance of the 4 A's in life and what it takes to be a star in Hollywood.
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I loved, I've never seen somebody own a set the way that Robert owned that character.
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You know, we sit up there and play guitar together and talked.
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They had learned to rest within themselves, sit at their seat of consciousness, especially Jeff.
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that he crazy heart yeah and and and the one and i think in crazy heart colin ferrell sings the song
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uh can you verify that rap can you type in uh um jeff bridges and colin ferrell crazy heart
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he falls in love with a young 20-year-old girl or something.
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She's trying to put him, kind of calm him down.
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So when you did Iron Man with Robert, was that Robert's comeback?
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That's when it was like his second chance to come up?
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And I can't be angry at him for the other choices.
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It'll be like being angry at Don Cheadle for accepting the role when he only had an hour to do it.
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He wasn't going to call me and say, hey, you're not doing this anymore.
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You know, it's just there's a lot of things that I took personally that if you live like I'm trying to live by the four agreements, you know, be impeccable with your word.
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and always do your best so i'm trying to really apply those in my daily life you know and i i
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pretty much i keep to it i really try and stick to my word but that's the thing that i break more
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than anything with myself which stops me from being like god is because i'm not keeping my
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word i'm setting things the bar too high for myself how much of making it in the game of
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Hollywood is the talent, is the business, is the humility, is the networking, is who
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represents you, you know, I talked to, I don't know if it was Scottie Pippen or whoever I
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was talking, I said, what's more important, a superstar, if we want to build a championship
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team, is a superstar the most important, a strong coach, owners, GM, rank them, put them
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in order, and it was kind of going through it, what does it take for somebody to make it and
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stay up there for 10, 20 years? First, you have to have thick skin.
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You can't take things personally. You've got to be able to walk away, you know, from your own
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emotions or your own feelings about something. You cannot take anything personal because they're
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just trying to make the production and then truth is all you are is a piece of talent
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so then the humility comes in there and you recognize your position in this like i was
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doing a film with um shia labeouf and um robert redford and this is recently this is about seven
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years ago and and shia i remember him running to hit his mark and after they yelled cut he would
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go right back to number one and wait there quietly.
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And this is him after, you know, all of his success,
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I learned to do that, to go back to your place.
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So the humility, the not taking anything personal,
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You have to have life experiences so you can tell those stories.
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If you don't have those, then it's just going to be a dull mirror
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that you will never see the proper reflection to.
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And then the final thing, if it's four things, the belief in self.
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Because you can have the talent, you can have the opportunity,
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you can have the humility, you can have the understanding,
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But if you don't believe in yourself, it's going to be clearly seen on the screen.
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Shia LaBeouf also, he also had a complicated upbringing with his father as well.
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Didn't he do a movie that they put it on Amazon?
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and, you know, there's a clip of him putting the video in front of his dad.
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I think he was saying this to Jimmy Kimmel or Jimmy Fallon, one of the two.
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And he said, I just want to watch my dad's reaction.
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He just recently had some issues that came up in the news.
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We all come in here for a reason, and we've got something to deal with,
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But is it almost like, you know, in comedy, are you almost, do you benefit in the weirdest way, a weird, tough, challenging upbringing for you to be able to tap into those emotions with the camera's on?
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But we're all damaged goods, every single one of us.
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Or you can be a trained actor and they don't have life experiences.
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But you resonate when you can see, oh, wait a minute, this is touching on something real.
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Are there any great, like, goat actors that didn't have a tough, they're just trained actors that didn't have a lot to tap into?
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They all say they're just trained and not relying on personal experiences.
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Most of them, they don't tell you what they've gone through.
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But the reality is I can only draw upon the things that I know, the things that I can go and look into somebody else's life or somebody else's path.
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But I have to have experienced it enough to where I can now associate myself with it and then tell it honestly.
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And you have to have gone through the darkness to know what it's like to be afraid of the dark.
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Like you can't, if you've all lived a prissy life, you don't understand, you know, well, you may understand drug addiction because a lot of people in privilege end up in that place.
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But if you've never seen somebody doing coke, you don't know how to do that.
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You don't even know, even like etiquette, there's Hollywood etiquette.
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You don't know coming into it that if somebody offers you a cigarette, you know, you probably more than likely should go out and have a cigarette with them, even if you don't smoke.
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It's just in Ren and Rome, do what the Romans are doing.
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If they offer you a joint, you sit there and have a joint with them.
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I didn't know that that was a reality that, you know, that allows people to come into the teepee.
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And if it's outside of your warehouse, then you say it's outside of your warehouse.
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but because I didn't do coke I didn't do all of those things and when somebody would
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would pull it out I would take a you know take a little step back with it I didn't realize that
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that was making me take a step back from them and a lot of people in this business took it that way
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yeah they they they're like oh you know you can't trust him that's what I'm thinking when you're
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telling me like you never you know you never uh had any sexual encounters with actresses in the
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space they're probably going to talk to each other he's a little weird he's a little this
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would that kind of happen would you be an outsider or would you i was did you ever see yourself as an
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outsider yeah okay i was always did they think you're an outsider no the industry look at you
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as an outsider yeah because i didn't participate with all of the stuff that they were doing
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even jamie fox he took me to we had um we're hanging out and these two girls come over
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jamie's in the room with one of them i'm in the room with uh with another one and i'm sitting
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there for three hours playing the guitar for her so so jamie tells these jokes that i'm over here
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bringing guitars and when it's been done for two and a half hours yeah it's like this there's
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something what are you doing happening but i'm over there because i did all that growing up i
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did that you know when i was young is that a known thing from four to 13 like do they know that
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on what happened to you does the does hollywood know what happened this is the first time i've
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said it you've never talked about it i'm probably going to get an earful from my wife when when i
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leave here about it you know it's it's but the reason that i bring it up because you brought it
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up is we have to start protecting our children better you know like we can't even let our child
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have our phone anymore because he looks up nick and judy from zootopia but he wants to see nick
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and judy naked and he thinks that if he looks it up it just because they they in Zootopia they go
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into this little area and it's it's everybody is just free and no not wearing any clothes
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this is really in the cartoon yeah in the in the cartoon it's it's like um what do you call it
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porn cartoon no no it's not porn cartoon but it's like you're you're doing that you're at a you're
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uh uh nudist it's like inside of the the cartoon there's this nudist colony in there and it's just
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In the first one, there was this little nudist colony
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think and pop up and i just want them to stay innocent just long enough so that they can get
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their balance i don't want them to have so many regrets that i have in my life and what a what a
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to to you know there's a pro and a con for having a father you don't choose your parents right god
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chooses your parents for you it's just you know science you don't i wish he was my dad i wish he
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was my mom and vice versa you know he chooses the kids for us to parent and then vice versa and then
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but there's pro and con for them right of uh growing up like just like for us you're growing
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up with your father and your mother and for me i grew up in my own setting and and how you manage
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that how you maneuver with that hi everyone my name is terrence howard i'm an actor um but in
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the field of science also so if you would like to connect with me you can connect with me on
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Manect. The QR code is down below. And let's have a great conversation.
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