Robert Downey Jr. on David Fincher Zodiac
by Freddenver: Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. called working with David Fincher a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He said, 'He is an absolute master of this art form and I remember also the subject matter is really intense so it wasn’t a fancy free set, your trying to serve the director and be respectful of that.' The full interview is available at and the original post is at
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Hey. Did he say they got a print? Partial. Working with David Fincher on Zodiac was a once in a lifetime opportunity. He is an absolute master of this art form. And I remember also the subject matter is really, really intense. And so it wasn't like a fancy free set. And because I knew that this was something that was really part of David's own history, of his own kind of contemplation of evil. You're trying to serve the director and be respectful of that. But I mean, I remember, you know, Ruffalo and Gyllenhaal and I looking at each other, knowing we're getting a real education in doing things in an extremely disciplined way. That said, when I watched the film, there's a lot of kind of like fun and lightness in it which David Fincher always knows how to capture It just not he doesn lean into any sort of indulgence He a really disciplined guy And then the crazy thing is David Fincher is your best lunch date you could ever have He's so fun, he's so witty. And yet, when you look at his work, you know, he doesn't take himself seriously, but boy, does he take his film seriously. That's the only place that word and that symbol ever appeared together before the letters. I guess he stole his logo off a watch. I think somebody who's killed 13 people. He claims he's killed 13 people, but which ones can we actually confirm? There's three in Vallejo, one in Berryessa. Cabby, that's it. Bobby, you almost look disappointed. Working with David Fincher, you will learn that you're more durable than you thought. A scene can devolve into where it just feels really perfunctory and you're kind of almost on an automatonic mode, but it doesn't matter because the craft of trying to get things done, Like there was a scene where he was trying to get it done in one shot and we had to have done 40 or 50 takes and people were a little bit exhausted.
