Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey unpack the making of ‘Sr.’ and the legacy it’s leaving on both them and viewers: “It’s a fever dream.”
have made everything from a prestige HBO series to a family-friendly blockbuster together, but for the married couple and producing partners, no professional endeavor has turned emotional quite likedid. The Netflix documentary, which traces the relationship between Jr. and his Parkinson’s-stricken father, the filmmaker Robert Downey Sr., evolved the deeper the producers and director got into it. They eventually realized they were also making a film about the final days of Sr.
He was a very avant-garde filmmaker, and I’m curious how making a movie in his spirit—about him, in tribute to him—made you think about filmmaking as producers on this movie and your own careers.Half of our relationship is this creative dialogue about reconciling the sequential and associative nature of what it is we try to do. And I’m not Mr. Far Afield. I’m actually a lot more logical than some of the experiences people may have wanted to report about developing things with me or shooting me.
There’s an incompleteness to Sr.’s process, which you just have to chalk up to chemical dependency. There’s a bit of an unrequited thing there. Because we’re pretty darn square and functional now, there’s a bit of an onus on, “Okay, so I still think along the lines of the Sr. or just the Downey fashion, that recipe that I grew up with.
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