Robert Downey Jr. Agrees With Iron Man In Captain America: Civil War

Were Tony and Cap ever what you would call friends?

They were friendly to each other, they respected each other, they were work buddies, but that is about it. Ever since Avengers in 2012, both heroes have been going at it like a couple of schoolboys, trading quips and bantering with each other in a somewhat passive aggressive way.

The Avengers:

Steve Rogers:Big man in a suit of armour. Take that off, what are you?

Tony Stark:Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.

Steve Rogers: I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you.

Tony Stark: I think I would just cut the wire.

Steve Rogers:Always a way out... You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero.

Tony Stark: A hero? Like you? You're a lab rat, Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle!

Steve Rogers:Put on the suit. Let's go a few rounds.

The Avengers: Age of Ultron:

Maria Hill: All set up boss.

Tony Stark: Actually he's the boss.

[points to Captain America]

Tony Stark: I just pay for everything and design everything, make everyone look cooler.

In Captain America: Civil War there is a reversal of roles so to speak. Cap, who once proudly and somewhat blindly served the establishment, now turns against it, while Tony, who didn't trust authority, has now become the agent of one, and that's what the movie is about. Two ideologies clashing onto one another, but because this is a Captain America movie that means that Iron Man is now the antagonist, and it doesn't bother Robert Downey Jr. the slightest.

"It didn’t bother me at all," Downey Jr. tells Entertainment Weekly. "I’ve always thought of it in some ways that Tony is the antagonist to himself in his own story, so this isn’t a problem. This guy understands problems ‘cause he is a problem. And he tends to create problems." Adding that, "I’m not having to patter around what I think the worldview is,”" he says. "I wholeheartedly agree with what he does in this. Which is, by the way, more than I could say for some of the other movies."

Opening on May 6, 2016, Captain America: Civil War also stars Chadwick Boseman, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Frank Grillo, William Hurt, Daniel Brühl, and Tom Holland.

Source - EW