BoxOffice® Pro - May 2013

Don Cheadle returns to the
Marvel fold after sitting
out The Avengers as James
Rhodes, aka War Machine
big picture > iron man 3
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Does the fact that you’re so connected to
it make you want to stay around as long as
you can?
The thing about playing this kind of inherent
narcissist, whenever you kill one of Tony’s egos,
another one just pops up. I’ve had that experience,
but I’ve found the whole thing to be a very quieting
journey for me. It’s been remarkably humbling. You
realize you’re just kind of part of this thing. I think
the problems begin when any one person involved
in anything—particularly anything successful—
decides that they have some sense of ownership to
it. This is really something that Stan Lee scratched
down going on 50 years now. He touched on something
really, really cool with Iron Man, and strangely,
Iron Man was a sort of second-tier superhero who
laid the groundwork for these other guys and gals.
Where I’m at right now is that I’ve always thought of
myself—particularly since I’ve been married to this
high-functioning Jewish girl from the Midwest—I
think of myself as being a company man. The funny
thing is that, though I can be quick-witted, I tend
to have a slow take experientially for things. These
five or six years have not been enough time for me to
process what has happened.
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