He scored a second Oscar nomination for his show-stopping comic turn in Tropic Thunder. Now, Robert Downey Jr. gets serious in The Soloist as Steve Lopez, a newspaper columnist who finds himself in a complicated relationship with a brilliant musician (Jamie Foxx) whose schizophrenia has left him homeless.

And the Oscar-nominated actor reveals he started to feel connected to co-star Jamie Foxx both on- and off-screen.

Meeting the real man.
“We were at Disney Hall when I was introduced to Nathaniel Ayers, and he told me I reminded him of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which I took as a compliment.”…Read more…

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