Alejandro González Innarritu is still hurt by Robert Downey Jr’s retort to his superhero comments

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Birdman director Alejandro González Iñarritu is still hurt by a comment made by Robert Downey Jr in 2015. They have been poison because the audience is so overexposed to plot and explosions and s*** that it doesn’t mean nothing about the experience of being human.” Downey Jr – who famously portrayed Tony Stark aka Iron Man in the Marvel Cienmatic Universe – weighed in on Iñarritu’s comments a year later during an interview to promote Avengers: Age of Ultron. “For a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like ‘cultural genocide’ just speaks to how bright he is,” said Downey Jr. Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark in ‘Avengers: Endgame' “It was like, ‘Oh, you guys from your banana country,’” Iñarritu said.