“Avengers: Endgame” director Joe Russo thinks Robert Downey Jr. deserves an Oscar for playing Tony Stark. Downey, Jr. launched the MCU by starring in 2008’s “Iron Man”. He is an important part of the very roots of Marvel’s mega, 22-movie plan which culminated, just last week, with the above-average “Avengers: Endgame.” .
The Joe Russo quote comes to us courtesy of an interview he did with the Washington Post — In it, Russo says that RDJ’s “cumulative body of work from these movies is staggering,” adding that “If you look at the work over just even the last four [Marvel] films he’s done, it’s phenomenal. . . . He deserves an Oscar perhaps more than anyone in the last 40 years because of the way that he has motivated popular culture.”
He added, “He has the world in tears right now.”
The world in tears? Hmmm …