Fantastic Four 2005's Doctor Doom Actor Julian McMahon Addresses Robert Downey Jr. Playing The Marvel Villain In The MCU
After playing Doctor Doom in 2005"s Fantastic Four, Julian McMahon opens up about Robert Downey Jr. playing Victor von Doom in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In an interview with ScreenRant"s Grant Hermanns at this year"s SXSW, while promoting his new film The Surfer, McMahon was asked if he had any thoughts about Downey Jr. becoming the next actor to portray Doctor Doom in live-action, with the MCU veteran set to return in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. McMahon had nothing but praise for Downey Jr., as he shared the following about the Iron Man star becoming the MCU"s Doctor Doom:
[indent] It"s Robert, you know what I mean? What are you going to say? His body of work speaks for itself. He"s a super talented guy. I love watching his work. When we did the movies years ago, we were at the [precipice] of all that stuff happening. So, we were finding our way a lot, and we were trying to figure out what space the movie itself lived in. Was it a kid"s movie? Was it a family movie? Was it more comedy-driven, or was it more trauma-driven? We were trying to find all that stuff as we were shooting.
I think now that there"s so many different realms of establishment of the way that you look at those pieces, you can pretty much do so many different things now. If you"ve got Robert Downey Jr, who"s one of the great creatives of the last however many years we"ve been watching him for, mixed with the elements of how we can make movies these days? I think it"s going to be pretty extraordinary.
[/indent] The Surfer opens in theaters on May 2.
In an interview with ScreenRant"s Grant Hermanns at this year"s SXSW, while promoting his new film The Surfer, McMahon was asked if he had any thoughts about Downey Jr. becoming the next actor to portray Doctor Doom in live-action, with the MCU veteran set to return in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. McMahon had nothing but praise for Downey Jr., as he shared the following about the Iron Man star becoming the MCU"s Doctor Doom:
[indent] It"s Robert, you know what I mean? What are you going to say? His body of work speaks for itself. He"s a super talented guy. I love watching his work. When we did the movies years ago, we were at the [precipice] of all that stuff happening. So, we were finding our way a lot, and we were trying to figure out what space the movie itself lived in. Was it a kid"s movie? Was it a family movie? Was it more comedy-driven, or was it more trauma-driven? We were trying to find all that stuff as we were shooting.
I think now that there"s so many different realms of establishment of the way that you look at those pieces, you can pretty much do so many different things now. If you"ve got Robert Downey Jr, who"s one of the great creatives of the last however many years we"ve been watching him for, mixed with the elements of how we can make movies these days? I think it"s going to be pretty extraordinary.
[/indent] The Surfer opens in theaters on May 2.
