In present times, the easy access to social media has allowed several individuals from the most ordinary backgrounds to grab a chance to gain fame. Be it showcasing their acting skills or any other talent, social media has helped people by providing them with a platform. However, the long-running debate about whether social media influencers can be compared with traditional film stars is still unsettled. And while this debate is still ongoing, Robert Downey Jr. has also firmly stated his opinion on this topic.
Recently, the Hollywood actor, Robert Downey Jr., made his appearance on the Conversations for our Daughters podcast, where he took a dig at the social media influencers quite bluntly.
He said, “nowadays people can create celebrity without ever doing much besides rolling a phone on themselves”, adding that he doesn’t look at that as a negative thing but more as a challenge for “individuation being upped”.
“Hopefully the (larger) part of the youth of – let’s just call it America for locality’s sake – is gonna say, ‘Yeah, but that’s not my thing. I want to go do something, I’m going to make something, I want to build something, I want to educate myself’… When I hear people talk about, ‘Oh, the stars of the future are going to be influencers,’ I go, ‘I don’t know what world you’re living in, but I think that that is absolute horses**t’,” said Robert Browney Jr.
However, the Iron Man star also shared the fact that not all influencers fit the stereotype and that he did get a chance to interact with several social media influencers during the promotion of his films and actually found many of them to be grounded, well-accomplished, and cool people.
The Oscar winner also opened up that despite having a rather large following of 58.1 million followers on his Instagram account, he avoids going “too deep down the rabbit hole” online, saying he does not want “to be consumed.”
And, lastly, he added, “I know, like people say, ‘Robert, they just love it when you’re just kind of like seeming off the cuff, and they’re getting a glimpse into your life.’ And I go, ‘But yeah, but I’d be manufacturing that aspect for them, so it’s B.S. But I remember Jon Favreau, when we brought the teaser for Iron Man to Comic Con, he was tweeting on stage, and I saw the audience… This is the new hue where the audience is going to feel like they’re on the steering committee of this thing. Ok, so that’s the new landscape.”
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