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Famous
Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey at the 2024 British Academy Film Awards.
Robert Downey Jr.’s wife, Susan, is pulling back the curtain on how they keep their 18-year-old marriage strong.
“We have a two-week rule, which often seems too long, but we don’t go more than two weeks without seeing each other and without the family being together,” said Susan, 50. People in an interview published Thursday.
“Fortunately, we prefer to be a traveling circus when we can,” the producer added of his son Exton, 12, and daughter Avri, 9.
Robert Jr., 58, also shares son Indio, 30, with his first wife, singer Deborah Falconer.
“You stick to the two-week rule of thumb and then don’t try to think too far ahead, because so much of what we do is strangely unpredictable. You never know”.
Susan continued: “Someone could get sick, or there could be a closure, or this or that. So you just have to have some basic things in place and then be willing to flow with the rest.”
The “Tropic Thunder” star joked, “Honestly, this gives me something to plug my neurosis into that is positive.”
The Downeys had a busy awards season, as Robert Jr. won a British Academy Film Award, a Critics’ Choice Movie Award, a Golden Globe, a SAG Award, and an Oscar for his role as Lewis Strauss in “Oppenheimer.” He thanked Susan in all of her acceptance speeches.
“I would like to thank my veterinarian, I mean my wife, Susan Downey, who is there,” he joked at the Oscars. “She found me a rescue pet that growled and you loved me back to life. That is why I am here.”
The “Ironman” star said of his girlfriend at the SAG Awards: “For 22 years, she has impeccably portrayed a sane, rational individual who is happily married to an actor.”
The couple met on the set of the 2003 film “Gothika,” for which Susan was working as a producer at the time. Robert Jr. proposed three months later and they married in 2005.