Robert Downey Jr. makes a threesome joke, because that’s his job

The cast, not at all ostentatiously, compared themselves to a Picasso painting, as well as a jazz band. They also spoke at length about the rehearsal process (the cast “really had their skin in it,” said Downey). While you’d expect this thing to be RDJ’s show, and for everyone else to be brushed aside by the sheer force of his presence, Downey was surprisingly restrained, as if deliberately trying not to be that guy.

He did have his moments, though. For instance, he made a funny (read: actually kind of sad) joke about “saving money on therapy” by working through some of his real life daddy issues (with actor/director Robert Downey Sr.) by acting out a father-son relationship with co-star Robert Duvall. And when Farmiga, who plays Downey’s first love in the film, started talking about the process of working through her relationship with her co-star, Downey chimed in. “It was really a threesome with the director,” he said to a laugh from the crowd. “It became this three-headed relationship, two of whom were free to make love whenever they wanted to.”