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After sauntering into our hearts as the doomed rich kid Julian in 1987's Less Than Zero and proving himself a comic genius with his Oscar-nominated performance in 1992's Chaplin, Robert spent roughly five years (from 1996 to 2001) in a long, heavily publicized death dance with crack cocaine, heroin, gunplay, and prison - at one point, even wandering into a neighbor's home and passing out in a child's bedroom. He's someone who has lived so much life yet has almost a Peter Pan kind of never-grow-up quality."įor a long time, however, it seemed as if that never-grow-up quality was going to land Robert in an early grave. "He's this incredible amalgam of contradictory traits that is never boring," she continues. Almost seven years after their first meeting, she still thinks her husband "is very strange," but her face lights up and her hazel eyes shine when she says it. Downey - who married Robert in New York in a large, glamorous Hamptons wedding complete with serenades by Sting and Billy Joel in 2005 - clearly agrees. "Whatever I was hungry for when I met Susan, I couldn't have known how much more satisfying what I got would be." I'm still trying to figure out what happened," says Robert. "I guess the only way to explain it is that I've become more like her. Unofficially known around Hollywood as the Miracle That Saved Robert Downey Jr., Susan waves off the title with a good-natured shrug, but her impossibly candid husband seems happy to elaborate. Wearing big Tom Ford sunglasses, with her long, tawny hair glinting in the sun and her pale, pretty face lifted toward the sky, is Susan herself, the 36-year-old producer who's responsible for her husband's newest action spectacular, Sherlock Holmes (out Christmas Day and costarring Jude Law and Rachel McAdams). We are sitting on the roof of the spacious modern stone-and-glass home that the Downeys bought recently in California's Venice Beach (along with a jaw-dropping seven-acre oceanfront ranch on a bluff up in Malibu) with their many, many Iron Man dollars, and it must be said that these days, life in Downeyland seems not so much strange as flat-out splendid. "The main thing I remember about meeting him was thinking how strange he was." In 2003, which Susan was producing for Joel Silver's company Dark Castle Entertainment and in which Robert starred. "Not even a little bit," she says, laughing as she remembers their first meeting on the set of Gothika She did not long to save his tortured soul. She did not find him devastatingly sexy or fascinating in a tragic-brilliant-bad-boy-train-wreck sort of way. In the beginning, Susan Downey was not interested in Robert Downey Jr.
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