????小羅伯特?唐尼現(xiàn)在已是好萊塢最有影響力的明星之一，不過這位現(xiàn)年48歲的演員卻坦承自己并不是個善于交際的人。他說：“我會想人際的事，我在腦袋里跟他們說話，但我往往不會主動去認(rèn)識別人?！薄敦敻弧冯s志（Fortune ）日前專訪了這位鋼鐵俠和福爾摩斯的扮演者，請他談?wù)勛约旱氖聵I(yè)以及電影行業(yè)的未來，采訪中他談到了埃隆?穆斯克是怎樣影響了他對科技、商業(yè)和娛樂的看法。經(jīng)過編輯的采訪文稿將刊登在1月13日的《財富》雜志上，以下是比較長的一段采訪節(jié)選：

????問：你的照片出現(xiàn)在一本商業(yè)雜志封面上，這已經(jīng)不是第一次了，《鋼鐵俠》主人公托尼?斯塔克的臉已經(jīng)上過不少頭版了。

????答：對！我想有個完滿的結(jié)束。

????問：經(jīng)常有人把埃隆?穆斯克與電影《鋼鐵俠》的主人公托尼?斯塔克相比，而且《鋼鐵俠II》的部分情節(jié)就是在穆斯克的太空探索技術(shù)公司（SpaceX）里拍攝的，你倆見過面嗎？

????答：這還要追溯到《鋼鐵俠I》的準(zhǔn)備拍攝階段，當(dāng)時SpaceX公司還在一幢更小的樓里，埃隆?穆斯克當(dāng)時也還不像今天這樣家喻戶曉。我當(dāng)時在為電影做功課。我很想訪問兩個人，一個是約翰?安德考夫勒（電腦界面公司Oblong的首席科學(xué)家），另一個就是埃隆?穆斯科。他真的決定成為一名火箭學(xué)家，我覺得這非常有意思。托尼?斯塔克和埃隆最像的地方就是一種驚人的自我能動性，它在埃隆身上表現(xiàn)得非常明顯。我之所以想見安德考夫勒，是想從他那里獲得一些純技術(shù)上的建議。你還記得《少數(shù)派報告》（Minor?ity Report）吧，影片里的人帶著那種手套可以把屏幕移來移去的，安德考夫勒和他的公司把這種技術(shù)變成了現(xiàn)實，所以我想從他那獲得些啟發(fā)：如果托尼?斯塔克設(shè)計了他自己的軟件和程序以及運(yùn)行機(jī)制，那他會設(shè)計一種什么樣的語言來操縱他的環(huán)境？在這幾部電影拍攝的過程中，不僅托尼的角色要求這些，其它環(huán)節(jié)也一樣。

????而埃隆的精神對我很有啟發(fā)，因為托尼?斯塔克也是把一件事做得很好、很成功，然后又去做另一件風(fēng)險大得多、意義也重大得多的事。

????《鋼鐵俠》第二部中，埃隆?穆斯克還在電影中客串了一把，與托尼?斯塔克在電影里一起討論了一個項目，如果沒記錯的話應(yīng)該是電動飛機(jī)。

????還有其他商業(yè)領(lǐng)袖或成功人士給了你的表演以啟發(fā)嗎？

????霍華德?休斯對我也有一點(diǎn)影響。但當(dāng)時從這個角色中，從這部片子里，我看到了自己的一個巨大的商機(jī)。我需要的是把我自己放到一個跟我以前想象的不一樣的角度上，想象把我塑造成一個更有闖勁、更硬朗的人。實質(zhì)上就是想要塑造一個不同的人物形象，它能給你帶來更多的機(jī)會。

????Robert Downey Jr. has become one of the most powerful players in Hollywood. But the 48-year-old actor admits he's not much of a networker. "I think about people, and I have a conversation with them in my head," he says. "But I tend to not reach out." In an interview about his career and the future of the movie industry, the Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes actor tells Fortune about the real-life discussions (Elon Musk!) that have influenced his thinking about technology, business, and entertainment. Edited portions of the interview will appear in the January 13 issue of Fortune; a lengthier excerpt of the Q&A follows.

????Q. This isn't the first time your image has been on the cover of a business magazine. Tony Stark's face has graced the cover of a few news titles.

????A. Yes! I wanted to close the circle.

????Elon Musk has been compared to Tony Stark, and parts of Iron Man 2 were filmed at a SpaceX facility. Did you ever meet?

????The genesis of that goes back to preproduction for Iron Man I, when SpaceX was in a smaller facility and Elon Musk was not a household name. As part of my research, I wanted to interview two people: John Underkoffler [the chief scientist at computer interface company Oblong] and Elon. I thought it was really interesting that he literally had decided to become a rocket scientist. And although the similarities kind of end with a certain -- what would you say? -- just an amazing self-agency, you know, that I think Elon really embodies. I was looking to Under?koffler for straight technology [advice]. You remember in Minor?ity Report, the character is wearing those gloves and moving the screens around? He and his company built that into a reality, so I was taking some cues from him: If Tony had designed his own software and his own programs and the machinery to operate them, what sort of language would he design to be able to ma?nipulate his environment? And over the course of all these mov?ies, that's been as much a part of Tony's character as anything else.

????The spirit of Elon was really inspiring to me because Tony goes from doing one thing so well and so successfully, and goes to do something that's a lot more risky and much more far reaching.

????And then in the second Iron Man, Tony Stark has a conversation with Elon Musk about doing a project together. I think it's electric jets if I'm not mistaken.

????Were there any other business leaders or powerful people who inspired your performance?

????There's a little bit of Howard Hughes in there. But in this character, in this potential franchise, I saw a huge business op?portunity for myself. What was required of me was to put myself forward in a different light than I had been previously imagined, and to imagine being perceived as a bit more dashing, a bit more masculine. Essentially you aspire to a persona that puts you into a different light, which you can equate to more opportunity.