Valuetainment - March 17, 2026


“Robert WAS Tony Stark!” - Terrence Howard PRAISES Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man Performance

Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Jeff Bridges Honey Boy Robert Jamie Foxx Best Buy Colin Farrell Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Fallon Crazy Heart Don Cheadle Tony Stark Alan Watts Judy
“Micropenis Mark” - Megyn Kelly vs Mark Levin WAR Of Words EXPLODES “Either You Work For Disney Or You WANT To” - Terrence Howard EXPOSES Disney’s Hollywood POWER Grip

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Length

12 minutes

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Word count

2,188

Sentence count

118

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Misogyny

2

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Toxicity

2

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Hate speech

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Summary

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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.

Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Did you enjoy doing Iron Man?
00:00:31.580 Oh, I loved it.
00:00:33.280 I loved it.
00:00:34.580 I loved watching Robert.
00:00:36.460 I loved, I've never seen somebody own a set the way that Robert owned that character.
00:00:44.100 He threw it away.
00:00:47.680 Cut it in half, throw it away.
00:00:49.360 Cut it in half, throw it away.
00:00:50.520 He wasn't trying to be Iron Man.
00:00:53.200 He was Tony Stark.
00:00:55.260 So I enjoyed watching him.
00:00:57.040 I enjoyed watching Jeff Bridges.
00:00:58.640 I, man.
00:01:00.420 Jeff Bridges, well.
00:01:01.660 You know, we sit up there and play guitar together and talked.
00:01:05.300 And, you know, I've been a huge fan of theirs.
00:01:08.780 But I noticed something about both of them.
00:01:11.480 They had learned to rest within themselves, sit at their seat of consciousness, especially Jeff.
00:01:17.880 You know, Jeff, he's like Alan Watts.
00:01:21.060 He's just so full of inspiration and calmness.
00:01:26.540 Jeff was in Crazy Heart, right?
00:01:28.460 that he crazy heart yeah and and and the one and i think in crazy heart colin ferrell sings the song
00:01:35.900 uh can you verify that rap can you type in uh um jeff bridges and colin ferrell crazy heart
00:01:46.280 yeah that's it yeah it's a great movie it's uh
00:01:52.700 he falls in love with a young 20-year-old girl or something.
00:01:57.060 She's trying to put him, kind of calm him down.
00:02:00.520 He's another phenomenal actor.
00:02:01.940 So when you did Iron Man with Robert, was that Robert's comeback?
00:02:07.120 Yeah.
00:02:07.760 That's when it was like his second chance to come up?
00:02:09.520 That was his chance.
00:02:11.200 That was his redemption.
00:02:13.200 And he earned it.
00:02:14.480 What an incredible story.
00:02:16.120 He did what he needed to do, you know.
00:02:18.680 And I can't be angry at him for the other choices.
00:02:22.200 It'll be like being angry at Don Cheadle for accepting the role when he only had an hour to do it.
00:02:28.440 He wasn't going to call me and say, hey, you're not doing this anymore.
00:02:31.540 That's not what happens.
00:02:33.400 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.
00:02:45.320 Don't assume anything.
00:02:46.840 Don't take anything personal.
00:02:49.060 What's the fourth one, honey?
00:02:49.980 and always do your best so i'm trying to really apply those in my daily life you know and i i
00:03:00.840 pretty much i keep to it i really try and stick to my word but that's the thing that i break more
00:03:06.260 than anything with myself which stops me from being like god is because i'm not keeping my
00:03:12.040 word i'm setting things the bar too high for myself how much of making it in the game of
00:03:18.180 Hollywood is the talent, is the business, is the humility, is the networking, is who
00:03:26.640 represents you, you know, I talked to, I don't know if it was Scottie Pippen or whoever I
00:03:32.040 was talking, I said, what's more important, a superstar, if we want to build a championship
00:03:36.060 team, is a superstar the most important, a strong coach, owners, GM, rank them, put them
00:03:43.000 in order, and it was kind of going through it, what does it take for somebody to make it and
00:03:49.580 stay up there for 10, 20 years? First, you have to have thick skin.
00:03:56.940 You can't take things personally. You've got to be able to walk away, you know, from your own
00:04:03.420 emotions or your own feelings about something. You cannot take anything personal because they're
00:04:10.780 just trying to make the production and then truth is all you are is a piece of talent
00:04:15.300 so then the humility comes in there and you recognize your position in this like i was
00:04:22.580 doing a film with um shia labeouf and um robert redford and this is recently this is about seven
00:04:30.580 years ago and and shia i remember him running to hit his mark and after they yelled cut he would
00:04:38.720 go right back to number one and wait there quietly.
00:04:43.840 And this is him after, you know, all of his success,
00:04:49.220 but he always went back to number one
00:04:52.220 so that the AD can get everything organized.
00:04:55.760 I learned to do that, to go back to your place.
00:05:00.400 So the humility, the not taking anything personal,
00:05:06.180 but you have to have the talent.
00:05:07.900 You have to have life experiences so you can tell those stories.
00:05:12.700 If you don't have those, then it's just going to be a dull mirror
00:05:17.340 that you will never see the proper reflection to.
00:05:21.280 And then the final thing, if it's four things, the belief in self.
00:05:28.780 Because you can have the talent, you can have the opportunity,
00:05:31.860 you can have the humility, you can have the understanding,
00:05:35.500 But if you don't believe in yourself, it's going to be clearly seen on the screen.
00:05:44.480 Shia LaBeouf also, he also had a complicated upbringing with his father as well.
00:05:49.740 Didn't he do a movie that they put it on Amazon?
00:05:52.820 Sunny Boy, I think.
00:05:53.980 What was it called?
00:05:55.020 Not Sunny Boy.
00:05:56.160 It's something else.
00:05:56.920 It's Honey Boy.
00:05:58.360 Honey Boy.
00:05:58.700 Yeah.
00:05:59.320 Honey Boy, I think.
00:06:00.220 Can you type?
00:06:00.920 I'm going to say correctly.
00:06:02.680 Is it Honey Boy?
00:06:04.260 Yeah, it's Honey Boy.
00:06:05.500 and, you know, there's a clip of him putting the video in front of his dad.
00:06:11.300 I think he was saying this to Jimmy Kimmel or Jimmy Fallon, one of the two.
00:06:14.540 And he said, I just want to watch my dad's reaction.
00:06:16.840 He just recently had some issues that came up in the news.
00:06:21.100 Yeah.
00:06:21.680 He got into a fight.
00:06:22.820 I don't know what happened with him.
00:06:24.920 Another one of those guys.
00:06:25.820 Still anger.
00:06:26.960 We all come in here for a reason, and we've got something to deal with,
00:06:30.660 and it's like it keeps popping up.
00:06:32.360 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?
00:06:46.900 You need it.
00:06:47.740 But we're all damaged goods, every single one of us.
00:06:50.940 In your own.
00:06:52.500 Or you can be a trained actor and they don't have life experiences.
00:06:58.280 But you resonate when you can see, oh, wait a minute, this is touching on something real.
00:07:03.420 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?
00:07:10.900 I don't know.
00:07:11.640 They all say they're just trained and not relying on personal experiences.
00:07:15.660 They say that?
00:07:16.320 They say that.
00:07:17.140 Most of them, they don't tell you what they've gone through.
00:07:20.560 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.
00:07:30.220 But I have to have experienced it enough to where I can now associate myself with it and then tell it honestly.
00:07:39.180 And you have to have gone through the darkness to know what it's like to be afraid of the dark.
00:07:44.400 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.
00:07:54.680 But if you've never seen somebody doing coke, you don't know how to do that.
00:08:01.640 You don't even know, even like etiquette, there's Hollywood etiquette. 0.73
00:08:08.120 We don't know.
00:08:08.700 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.
00:08:19.000 It's just in Ren and Rome, do what the Romans are doing. 1.00
00:08:21.900 If they offer you a joint, you sit there and have a joint with them.
00:08:24.960 I didn't know that that was a reality that, you know, that allows people to come into the teepee.
00:08:31.480 Let's do these things together.
00:08:32.900 And if it's outside of your warehouse, then you say it's outside of your warehouse.
00:08:36.920 but because I didn't do coke I didn't do all of those things and when somebody would
00:08:40.920 would pull it out I would take a you know take a little step back with it I didn't realize that
00:08:47.140 that was making me take a step back from them and a lot of people in this business took it that way
00:08:51.700 yeah they they they're like oh you know you can't trust him that's what I'm thinking when you're
00:08:56.720 telling me like you never you know you never uh had any sexual encounters with actresses in the
00:09:02.960 space they're probably going to talk to each other he's a little weird he's a little this
00:09:06.940 would that kind of happen would you be an outsider or would you i was did you ever see yourself as an
00:09:10.920 outsider yeah okay i was always did they think you're an outsider no the industry look at you
00:09:16.180 as an outsider yeah because i didn't participate with all of the stuff that they were doing
00:09:20.220 even jamie fox he took me to we had um we're hanging out and these two girls come over 0.99
00:09:26.100 jamie's in the room with one of them i'm in the room with uh with another one and i'm sitting
00:09:31.920 there for three hours playing the guitar for her so so jamie tells these jokes that i'm over here
00:09:41.960 bringing guitars and when it's been done for two and a half hours yeah it's like this there's
00:09:47.320 something what are you doing happening but i'm over there because i did all that growing up i
00:09:51.160 did that you know when i was young is that a known thing from four to 13 like do they know that
00:09:56.620 on what happened to you does the does hollywood know what happened this is the first time i've
00:10:01.060 said it you've never talked about it i'm probably going to get an earful from my wife when when i
00:10:06.720 leave here about it you know it's it's but the reason that i bring it up because you brought it
00:10:14.300 up is we have to start protecting our children better you know like we can't even let our child
00:10:21.360 have our phone anymore because he looks up nick and judy from zootopia but he wants to see nick
00:10:28.560 and judy naked and he thinks that if he looks it up it just because they they in Zootopia they go
00:10:33.860 into this little area and it's it's everybody is just free and no not wearing any clothes
00:10:39.780 this is really in the cartoon yeah in the in the cartoon it's it's like um what do you call it
00:10:45.100 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
00:10:49.680 uh uh nudist it's like inside of the the cartoon there's this nudist colony in there and it's just 0.82
00:10:57.560 animals being natural without
00:10:59.840 any clothes on them. Is there really
00:11:01.880 a nudist colony in this cartoon?
00:11:03.580 In the first one, there was this little nudist colony
00:11:05.960 where they're at.
00:11:07.920 So my son goes
00:11:09.900 and looks up Nick and Judy
00:11:11.840 naked, but on the phone
00:11:13.920 that comes off as 0.96
00:11:15.620 pornography.
00:11:17.820 And we're like, he's so upset that
00:11:19.840 we won't let him have our phones anymore
00:11:21.860 because anything can
00:11:23.900 pop up. Anything
00:11:25.600 think and pop up and i just want them to stay innocent just long enough so that they can get
00:11:32.860 their balance i don't want them to have so many regrets that i have in my life and what a what a
00:11:41.000 to to you know there's a pro and a con for having a father you don't choose your parents right god
00:11:49.380 chooses your parents for you it's just you know science you don't i wish he was my dad i wish he
00:11:54.300 was my mom and vice versa you know he chooses the kids for us to parent and then vice versa and then
00:11:59.640 but there's pro and con for them right of uh growing up like just like for us you're growing
00:12:04.500 up with your father and your mother and for me i grew up in my own setting and and how you manage
00:12:09.720 that how you maneuver with that hi everyone my name is terrence howard i'm an actor um but in
00:12:16.360 the field of science also so if you would like to connect with me you can connect with me on
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