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Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey on the 2024 British Academy Movie Awards.
Robert Downey Jr.’s spouse, Susan, is pulling again the curtain on how they hold their 18-year ironclad marriage robust.
“We do have a two-week rule, which regularly feels too lengthy, however we don’t go greater than two weeks with out seeing one another and the household being collectively,” Susan, 50, instructed People in an interview revealed Thursday.
“Luckily, we want to be a touring circus after we might be,” the producer added of their son Exton, 12, and daughter Avri, 9.
Robert Jr., 58, additionally shares his son Indio, 30, along with his first spouse, singer Deborah Falconer.
“You retain the essential rule of two weeks, and you then don’t attempt to assume too far forward, as a result of a lot of what we do is oddly unpredictable. You simply by no means know.”
Susan continued, “Somebody may get sick, or there is likely to be a shutdown, or this or that. So that you simply must have some staple items in place, after which you need to be prepared to movement with the remainder of it.”
The “Tropic Thunder” star quipped, “It simply offers me, truthfully, one thing to connect my neurosis to that’s constructive.”
The Downeys had a busy award season as Robert Jr. gained a British Academy Movie Award, Critics’ Selection Film Award, a Golden Globe, a SAG Award and an Oscar for his function as Lewis Strauss in “Oppenheimer.” He thanked Susan in all of his acceptance speeches.
“I’d wish to thank my veterinarian — I imply my spouse, Susan Downey, over there,” he joked on the Oscars. “She discovered me a snarling rescue pet and you like me again to life. That’s why I’m right here.”
The “Ironman” star mentioned of his bride on the SAG Awards, “For 22 years, she has flawlessly portrayed a sane and rational particular person who’s fortunately married to an actor.”
The pair met on the set of the 2003 movie “Gothika,” on which Susan was working as a producer on the time. Robert Jr. proposed three months later and so they wed in 2005.
