By Andrew Pulver, The Guardian
Iron Man actor Terrence Howard has claimed Robert Downey Jr “pushed him out” of the lucrative superhero franchise, and “took [his] money” at the same time .
Terrence Howard played as Lt. Colonel James Rhodes in the first Iron Man movie.
Howard played Lt. Colonel James Rhodes in the first Iron Man film, opposite Downey’s Tony Stark, but was replaced by Don Cheadle for Iron Man 2 and 3. At the time it was reported that Howard’s salary was the highest of the entire cast, and he refused to take a “50 and 80 percent pay cut” for the second film, with Howard’s “difficult behaviour” on set compounding issues.
However, while appearing as a guest on the Bravo TV chat show Watch What Happens: Live to promote The Best Man Holiday, Howard directly accused Downey of sabotaging his return to the Iron Man role. “”It turns out that the person that I helped become Iron Man, when it was time to […] re-up for the second one took the money that was supposed to go to me and pushed me out.”
Read the full article by Andrew Pulver of the Guardian.
