‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Cast Named Robert Downey Jr.’s ‘Convoy’ of Set Trailers ‘Downey Land,’ Says Simu Liu: ‘Chefs Had Come and Laid Out This Full Buffet’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/robert-downey-jr-avengers-doomsday-trailers-private-chefs-1236620366/

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  2. > “Downey famously has this convoy of trailers and this whole area in base camp that we affectionately called Downey Land,” Liu said. “And I remember getting invited to Downey Land for the first time and just showing up in this tent, and it’s all this beautiful Andy Warhol-esque artwork, except all the characters are Downey. I mean, he’s so self-aware.”

    > “So, he greeted me, and then I didn’t realize that Downey Land has its own chefs, but I had brought my set lunch, and he was like, ‘Oh, no, no, no. We don’t do that here,’” Liu continued. “The chefs had come and laid out this full buffet, and I was like, ‘Oh, I’ll put this away.’ And then just the people walking through, I was like, ‘I cannot believe I’m having lunch with these people.’”

  5. >Liu said . .. “And I remember getting invited to Downey Land for the first time and just showing up in this tent, and it’s all this beautiful Andy Warhol-esque artwork, except all the characters are Downey. **I mean, he’s so self-aware.**”

    I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

  6. Every interview with Simu Liu reads like he’s a normal dude who got whisked into this crazy big movie and he doesn’t know why he’s there. I love it lol

  9. Some of the comments in here are fucking wild.

    Downey had the leverage in this arrangement, so he took it. Sheesh.

  10. Idk why people are so annoyed at this. The dude knows he has leverage and it shows. I guarantee downy asked for that 100 million dollar paycheck not thinking Disney would bite. And now he can pretty much do whatever he wants because he knows just how badly Disney needs him.

  11. Between this and his tongue-in-cheek pretentiousness in interviews it’s becoming a cringey look

  12. Know someone who worked for Downey and this tracks. Feels like dude’s addiction is his own self-image now.

  13. I wonder if those trailers are like others stars where he owns them and the production rents them. So he makes money on them providing him comfort. I think Shatner has had his RV for decades, which is very smart really. It’s been paid off forever and Shatner just making bank on it.

    The point being, Downey having Downey art in his trailers makes perfect sense to me. Assuming the trailers are his.

  15. Yet, all of you Marvel fans suck on his teet like he’s a cult leader. So gross.

  16. I have no problem with this if everyone, all cast and crew, have access to use ‘Downeyland’. If access is by RDJ’s invite only, then I take issue.

  17. They will never capture the magic of Infinity War and Endgame again. No matter how much money or gimmicks they throw at it.

  18. I mean… I get a lot of people like Robert Downey Jr. , but his Iron Man died. They should’ve left it like that. Not bring him back as doomsday, or anything else. There’s nothing worse than movies continuously bringing back people. It takes away from the perfect ending they gave him.

  19. This is distasteful when the industry is in shambles and crew members are leaving the industry because of lack of work.

  20. Disney is sparing no expense to make RDJ have a easy time

  21. Liu working hard to alienate everyone so he never gets another job. You typically don’t share stuff like this, even if its relatively innocuous. Either he’s trying to burn bridges or he’s dumb.

  23. Considering he’s one of the biggest philanthropist in Hollywood, I don’t have a problem with this.

  24. I’m really disappointed in RDJ’s apparent slide into whatever this is. $100 million for appearing in two movies is disgusting.

  25. Being invitation-only (the “only” being for other movie stars), and telling them to put their set lunches away and to eat the elite food, is all very “them-and-us”.
    It’s very “Let them eat cake.”

    Gross.

  27. Wonder why film budgets are so out of control? Guess we will never know.

  28. Can someone articulate to me why I don’t like Simu Liu? I like his movies and I think he’ll say something funny occasionally, but I just don’t find him likable and he always mildly annoys me. Maybe it’s that he comes across as very thirsty online to me

  29. I mean, he’s a baller. At this point I prefer rich people actually spend their money rather than acrew power.

  33. I’ve always got the feeling that Downey pretends that he’s pretending to be arrogant when he actually is arrogant, if that makes sense?

    “Oh, this is just a persona I’m performing for you.”

    Is it?

  34. This is providing so many under the line employees. Good.

  35. Isn’t this the same studio that fought with Scarlett Johansson over money?

  37. What will be the implications for Simu Liu for sharing this? I mean RDJ or Disney might be pissed off, right?

  39. Rdj taking this doom thing too seriously and i kinda like that

  42. What a fucking joke. This makes me want to see it even less.

  43. This man has battled addiction and found his niche. I’m happy for him.

  44. Cool. I skipped dinner tonight because I don’t have any money. But I’m happy for them.

  47. And here you can see someone being banned from Downey-Land for life in real time!

  48. This has been said before and it’s funny becuase on a marvel set he’s untouchable and brings in the money to

    But get him to do his own movie and it flops completely

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