Christopher Nolan Was ‘a Little Afraid’ of Robert Downey Jr. When They First Met for ‘Batman Begins’: ‘I’d Heard Stories About How Crazy’ He Was

Robert Downey Jr. made headlines earlier this month when he revealed that he first met his “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan back in the early 2000s to be potentially cast as the villain Scarecrow in the director’s 2005 superhero tentpole “Batman Begins.” Downey said Nolan wasn’t too interested in casting him, which Nolan fully admitted in […]