Robert Downey, Jr: A Rare Interview

For our April/May 2024 cover, Robert Downey Jr. invited Esquire into his home for a rare sit-down. And, as writer Ryan D'Agostino assures, it didn't disappoint. "I didn’t know it then," he writes, "but it was clear when I listened to the tape later that from that moment on, for the next five hours, this interview would be different. He would lead, and I would follow, and it would hardly clock as an interview at all but rather a sort of conversation. In fact, it would be unlike any conversation I had ever had in my life."

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