Downey Jr. Walks out of Interview After Being Asked About His Non-Liberal Views

Robert Downey Jr walks out on Krishnan Guru-Murthy (The New York Times)

In London to promote his latest film, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Robert Downey Jr discussed superheroes with Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy.

But when the questions turned to his past experience of serving a prison sentence (for drug offences), the atmosphere cooled dramatically.

He declined to explain a comment in an interview with the New York Times some years ago that "you can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal," saying it made sense at the time: "I could pick that apart for two hours and be no closer to the truth than giving you some half-arsed answer right now.