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RDJ To British Journalist: 'You're A Bottom-Feeding Muckraker'

If you need a refresher, Avengers: Age of Ultron actor Robert Downey Jr. was talking with Britain's Channel 4 News about the upcoming film when interviewer Krishnan Guru-Murthy took the conversation in a very uncomfortable direction.

Guru-Murthy randomly started asking Downey, 50, about the "dark periods" of his past and his political views after prison.


Robert sat there awkwardly for a few minutes and attempted to give Guru-Murthy a sound bite before eventually getting up and leaving because it was "getting a little Diane Sawyer in here."

RDJ was in a much more cheerful mood on Tuesday while talking to Howard Stern where he addressed the incident.

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"Here's the thing, I'm one of those guys who I'm always assuming the social, kind of decorum is in play and that we're promoting a super hero movie. A lot of kids are going to see it, and this has nothing to do with your creepy dark agenda that I'm feeling all of a sudden like, ashamed and obligated to accommodate your weirdo s**t," he said.

"I just realised too I'm a 50-year-old guy… I'm completely unevolved when it comes down to simple boundaries, like, 'You know what? You're weirding me out, you are a bottom-feeding muckraker.'"

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The sitdown unfortunately happened to be Robert's first interview of that particular day: "I didn't know what to expect, and I go, 'You dummy, what do you think, do you think you are in Gumbaya land?”

He continued, "The assumption is that there's a button, that because you’ve sat down there you're going to be scrutinised like you're a kiddie fiddler who’s running for mayor.

“What I have to do in the future is I have to give myself permission to say, ‘That is more than likely a syphilitic parasite, and I need to distance myself from this clown,'" he concluded. "Otherwise, I’m probably going to put hands on somebody, and then there’s a real story."

Consider yourself warned, randomly invasive journalists.

Taryn Ryder writes for Yahoo Celebrity