Earlier than he was an award-winning actor, Robert Downey Jr. struggled to make it within the retail trade.
Chatting with movie critic Leonard Maltin on the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Competition, Downey revealed that he was fired from his retail job – not lengthy after he was employed.
“Effectively, I labored at a sandwich store. I labored at a shoe retailer, however I had sticky fingers and I obtained fired after two weeks,” he shared.
The actor defined that he labored there earlier than “closed-circuit cameras the place they monitor who is likely to be sitting.”
“I used to be not excellent at it,” he admitted.
Downey beforehand spoke about being fired from the gig in his Wired interview in 2023, revealing that the shoe retailer was really his first job.
“My first job was working on the Indian Stroll Shoe Retailer on Broadway and 83rd Avenue. I made it about 10 shifts earlier than I used to be fired for my sticky fingers,” he mentioned.
Chatting with Maltin, the Iron Man star mentioned he additionally did some hospitality work in golf equipment and at a Santa Monica Thrifty’s earlier than Hollywood got here calling.
“I made it to busboy, however I did not actually have the panache to be a waiter, I used to be informed, so I needed to resort to theatre.”
And the remainder is historical past.
