Don Cheadle's Reaction to Robert Downey Jr. Playing Doctor Doom Is How We All Reacted
Marvel movie star Don Cheadle recently shared his reaction to the crazy announcement that Robert Downey Jr. was cast as Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, and his reaction was pretty much how we all reacted!
While talking to Collider, he was asked about the casting, and he responded: “I was like, 'What the f*ck?’ They're rewriting, they're reworking, and so I honestly can't even tease anything.”
I was in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con when that announcement was made, and there were a lot of people saying the same thing… “What the f*ck!”
Jeff Goldblum also previously responded to the news saying: "Excellent news. I think I vaguely heard the...yes, yes, I’d heard whispers on my peripheral. Yes, channels.
“Victor Von Doom, I like that name. If my name had been Victor Von Doom, I’d be a long further along than I am now. That’s a great name. Or Von to anything. Or Van. Von Goldblum!"
Downey talked about the process of getting cast in this role, saying: "Probably a year ago, because Feige and I have kept in touch. We're pals. Favreau and Feige and I have kept in touch. I'm close with the Russo brothers. We have other business we're doing.
“So there's this little group of fellow travelers, and I had this instinct that I wanted to go to Bob Iger. And I had an idea, outside of the cinematic universe, for how I could be of service to what's going on in the parks and all their location-based energy.
“And Susan and I were sitting down with Feige at one point, and he said, 'It just keeps occurring to me that, if you were to come back...' And Susan was like, 'Wait, wait, come back as what?' And then we both realized, over time, that it was another thing that just disproves any doubt anyone could ever have about that guy.
“[He's] a very sophisticated, creative thinker about, 'How can we not go backwards? How can we not disappoint expectations? How can we continue to to beat expectations?' And he brought up Victor von Doom, and I looked into [the] character, and I was like, 'Wow.' And later on, he goes, 'Let's get Victor von Doom right. Let's get that right.'
“So then I said to Kevin, 'Can I go talk to Bob Iger?' He goes, 'About?' I go, 'About everything.'"
"And I'd gone to Bob's house, which I don't know how to describe that experience," Downey continued. "I've had a lot of really cool experiences. We go to Iger's pad, and we sit down and start saying, 'I just really want to be...' He goes, 'I like it.' I was like, 'He likes it.' He goes 'Come by the Imagineering campus.'
“Feige and I go to the Imagineering campus and — you want to talk about two guys that are not easy to have their minds blown, let alone at the same time. I can't say too much about it, but what is going on there right now is so beyond my expectation of what was possible. no wonder it was numinous to me.
“It's also the only way that I felt like I can give a certain entertainment-seeking audience, something that they may have a hankering to have an experience of, in a way where I can continue to develop my interest in the future of entertainment.
“Where the hell else should you go back there? So it's this crazy, weird thing that's going on, and if that all goes to sh-t, we'll just remake what many people say is the greatest film of all time."
It’s going to be really interesting to see how Marvel Studios handles Doctor Doom’s story arc in the MCU, and I hope that it ends up being something awesome, unique, and unexpected.