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Robert Downey Jr. slams influencer fame as 'stars of the future': 'Don’t know what world you’re living in'

Gulf News: Latest UAE news, Dubai news, Business, travel news, Dubai Gold rate, prayer time, cinema·Lakshana N Palat·26 days ago
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Robert Downey Jr. has waded into the long-running debate about whether social media influencers belong in the same bracket as traditional film stars and he didn’t exactly hold back. Speaking on the Conversations for our Daughters podcast, the Hollywood actor took aim at the idea that influencers are the 'stars of the future,' dismissing the notion in characteristically blunt terms. Robert Downey Jr., who will next be seen in Avengers: Doomsday, suggested that modern fame is now easier to manufacture than ever. “Nowadays people can create celebrity without ever doing much besides rolling a phone on themselves,” he said, adding that he doesn’t see it as inherently negative, but more as a shift that challenges how people define individuality. He went on to express hope that younger audiences would choose more traditional paths of creation and self-development. “Hopefully the (larger) part of the youth of let’s just call it America for locality’s sake is going say, ‘Yeah, but that’s not my thing.…

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