Robert Downey Jr. Extreme Demand for Avengers Endgame Revealed

Joanna Robinson, an insider in the business, spoke on The Watch with The Ringer to talk about Robert Downey Jr.'s time on the Avengers: Endgame set.

This contributed to her work on the recently published behind-the-scenes book titled MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, which details the past and future of the MCU. Robinson stated that it was "ice cold in the studio" when she visited the Endgame set while working for Vanity Fair in 2017, as a result of Downey Jr.'s request that the set be kept at that temperature:

The Watch Podcast: "What is the vibe [on Marvel Studios sets]?"

Robinson: "The vibe is interesting... It's - this isn't in the book, so it's exclusive to The Watch - it's ice cold in the studio because that's how Robert Downey Jr. likes it. So everyone else had to layer up, because Robert Downey Jr. likes things at a certain degree..."

"There's the little ocean of trailers outside of the studio, but then Downey has his own trailer inside the studio. And so, between takes, everyone hangs out in one spot. So you can just see Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Renner are all sort of sitting around, playing games, and talking to each other. And then slightly off were Sean Gunn and Karen Gillan because they weren't OG Avengers... They were in their own little duo, but they're in that movie."

"And then Downey is off in his own world. And that's sort of the between-take vibe. But it very much looked to me like these were the graduating seniors, like ScarJo and Chris Evans and Hemsworth, they just have been through it for a while, they've just been through it for a while, they've known each other forever..."