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the billionaire awakens with a start and asks, “What’s next?”
But during filming, Downey is notorious for pushing for variations and felt that line could be something snappier.
Whedon agreed and penned several new versions of the scene in a notebook the day of shooting.
“Peek behind the curtain,” Whedon told EW, showing us the scribbles.
“It was one linenow it’s three pages.”
What was in those pages?
That line made the finished movie, but others didn’t.
And that, dear readers, is what Whedon and Marvel realized after the fact, too.
In the background, restaurant workers quietly clean up debris in the apocalypse-adjacent eatery.
And they say… nothing.
After saving the planet, they are spent.
It’s basically an awkward kind of funny.
you’ve got the option to find bootleg clips of the scene online, but why do that?
You’ve already seen the movie, right?
with a few of the Hasbro toys scattered across the table whileJoss Whedonlooks on.
We’re waiting for the rest to arrive.
“Where is Chris Evans?
Getting his face replaced?”
Evans hasn’t arrived yet, but that doesn’t hold back Downey.
“Chris, why the long face?
Chris, why the WRONG face?”
Downey says as the other guys laugh.
Ruffalo shakes his head, his lips pursed.
“Oh no …”
“I felt so bad for him!”
Hemsworth says, wincing.
He makes a swallowed sound, like someone trying to speak through glued-shut lips.
Downey twists his face into an Elephant Man snarl.
“Hey guys, I am not an animal,” he mutters.
“What the f–k did you just do?”
Downey asks, still giddy.
Ruffalo is still turning over the toy, trying to figure that out.
“I just shot myself,” he shrugs.
Whedon was exaggerating, of course.
Not every reporter had asked that question…yet.
“So what were you shooting today?”
your friendly neighborhood EW reporter inquires.
Whedon squints his eyes, like Mr. Peabody when he’s fed up with Sherman.
Downey opens his arms.
“Carnival barker!”
“Last night, I just wanted to verify the excitement was there.”
he says in the voice of a curious reporter.
Then Whedon decides to tell them how it turned out.
“We actually went through it as you guys left.
“So it’s [going to be] the last 30 seconds?”
Tired,” Whedon tells him.
“I thought I might be sick, by the way,” Hemsworth says.
“I ate one [pita] each take, you know!
And by the end, I was like, Whooooaaa …”
“Hello, sir!”
“Not without my beard,” Downey says, mumbling like his jaw is wired shut.
Downey, as you could imagine, just loses it.
