To watch “‘Sr.’” on Netflix is to know Robert Downey Jr.
and director Chris Smith were, in a sense, winging it by the time production started on the documentary portrait of the star/producer’s late filmmaker father.
But Downey told IndieWire over Zoom that the seed of the idea was there a decade before he ever met the “Fyre” filmmaker.
“‘We should do a documentary about fathers and sons.’ ‘All right.
Would we be in it?’ ‘Maybe.
Who knows,’” said the actor, mimicking a conversation he had with the New York-accented Sr., still tickled by the eccentric director’s pitch.“My dad went down to North Carolina and was following George Hamilton on a tour he was doing for ‘La Cage aux Folles.’ Then he started interviewing him and [his son] Ashley,” said Downey.
“Anyway, there’s a super long answer to this.
I’ll just stop myself short.
There’s
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