2 CommentsIron Man star Robert Downey, Jr. thanked the fast food chain Burger King, for basically saving him from a life of addiction.
“I have to thank Burger King. It was such a disgusting burger I ordered. I had that, and this big soda, and I thought something really bad was going to happen,” the actor tells Britain’s Empire magazine.
The actor, who has long battled an addiction to drugs and alcohol, says he was driving a car filled with “tons of f**king dope” on California’s Pacific Coast Highway when he decided to stop at the burger joint for a meal back in 2003.
After his meal, which he described as less than satisfying, he tells the magazine he threw all his drugs into the ocean, resolving to clean up his act then and there.
The 43-year-old actor goes on to hint that a fateful moment in new movie Iron Man, when his character Tony Stark requests a cheeseburger from Burger King after being released from his captors, is a reference to his own experiences.
Iron Man opened in theaters in May 2008.
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1 craig harrison • Jun 9, 2008 at 10:01 am
seriously? who else thinks that burger king paid the producers and film makers of IronMan to have their name in the movie? It’s called product placement people!!!
2 Richard • Jun 10, 2008 at 10:49 am
Why is everyone so synical??? there is no product placement in the epic tale of Iron Man, the story was only fascited with BK to emphisize the triumph over drugs and evil!
Good for you Downey!, and nay to you ANTI-AMERICAN CRAIG
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