EXCLUSIVE: After festival premieres in Telluride, AFI and New York, the Chris Smith-directed documentary Sr. just began its run on Netflix. What began as a docu about Robert Downey Sr, the ’6…
became something you don’t see often: candor from two generations of a film family that got chewed up but managed to come out the other side intact, bonding and healing before Downey Sr. succumbed to Parkinson’s in July 2021 at age 85. Here, his Jr. describes what the journey means to him.‘Sr.’ Director Chris Smith Found Himself Following Robert Downey Sr.’s Lead, For The Film And Beyond – Contenders DocumentaryWhen I watched this documentary about your dad, I was a little jealous.
The two big things that were revelatory for me, one was finding out that he didn’t really have any support until he was in the Stockade, and that came from a stranger.
I still think there’s this section of our culture that thinks it’s a moral weakness. And also, you feel bad about all the crazy shit, so then there’s the guilt button. I don’t really know if my dad ever made peace with those many lost years, or if what he was able to do and that living amends to his second wife Laura [was related to that]. I know from Rosemary Rogers, his third wife and the widow who survived him, it’s not like he all of a sudden became the dream partner.
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