The recordings of the first Iron Man movie were not easy for Robert Downey Jr., the actor who played the superhero in the title that in 2008 launched what would later be known as the Cinematic Universe from Marvel (MCU).

This was revealed by Downey Jr. himself, in an interview that will be shown in the third season of the show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction (It does not need an introduction) by the emblematic American presenter David Letterman, which is broadcast on Netflix.

The actor recalls that before Marvel was bought by Disney in 2009, with which there were resources to incorporate spectacular special effects, things were different and the budget was limited, so many action scenes were real.

“They wanted to spend as little as they could on the CG (computer generated actor) replacement,” Downey Jr. said, recalling an episode in which he was blinded after donning the Iron Man suit to film one of the takes. .

“I remember the helmet ignited, and there would be a shot, and I would be in that whole suit. And they'd say, Okay, Robert, it's like you landed on the roof, so when we say action, do it like this, like you just landed, and then start moving forward. I put this helmet on, it slammed shut, and I couldn't see anything, and then these LED lights came on and it was like The Manchurian Candidate… I was absolutely blinded,” he recounted.

Downey Jr., claimed that this temporary blindness paid off when the movie became a huge hit and Marvel studio had the budget to do the special effects, which would no longer force him to wear the helmet again.

"When we were doing the last few Avengers, they'd just be saying something like, Hey, Robert, would you mind wearing...? A helmet?! No! Put a colon here, and then you can draw (the effects) later," he recalled.

The third season of the Letterman show, which will premiere on October 21, also includes interviews with Kim Kardashian West, Dave Chappelle and Lizzo.

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