Robert Downey Jr. Improvised Another Emotional Avengers: Endgame Line 

Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark took a piece of many fans’ hearts when he debuted as the superhero over a decade ago in 2008’s

. The film began the Marvel Cinematic Universe and introduced us to a now-iconic character. The 54-year-old actor’s portrayal incorporated parts of himself; he even improvised some of his most famous lines.

, which marked Downey\'s final MCU film, was no different, and now we’re learning of another part of the film that came straight from the actor.

Earlier, fans discovered that the heartfelt line, “I love you 3000,” from Iron Man in the final

film was inspired by Downey’s own children: the actor altered it to match what his kids say to him in real life. And that wasn’t the only bit of improvisation in the blockbuster film. According to co-director Anthony Russo, Downey added the part in which Tony Stark calls Steve Rogers a liar.

, Iron Man returns to Earth and reunites with Captain America, who he hasn’t seen since the events of

. The scene is already tense when Tony confronts him and says, “No trust, liar.” As reported by CinemaBlend, Russo revealed to

that the word “liar” was Downey’s choice. He explained:

“I think that was one of Downey\'s most inspired performance moments in the movie. He very much reverts to—this is the guy who felt forsaken by his father. You can see his intimacy and trust issues in that moment when he turns on Cap. Downey performed the scene with a lot of energy. We didn\'t do it many times, because he was expending himself so, so much. He understood it very well.”

Some of the most emotional scenes throughout the MCU have been improvised by the actors, such as Tom Holland adding his own bit of dialogue as he faded away in

. It goes to show that the stars behind our favorite superheroes are just as invested as we are—and that sparks better results in the end.

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In 1989, a couple of slackers from San Dimas, California hopped inside a time-traveling phone booth and gathered a gaggle of key figures from the past so they wouldn’t fail their high school history class. In 1991, they were at it again. Now, 30 years after Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter first cemented their place in sci-fi history as the lovable duo, the long-awaited threequel—

—has been officially confirmed. Here are 15 things you might not know about the most excellent original film.

The idea for the characters of Bill and Ted came about in 1983, when UCLA classmates Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson formed a student improv workshop with a few of their peers. “One day, we decided to do a couple of guys who knew nothing about history, talking about history,” Solomon recalled to

Cinemafantastique in a 1991 interview. “The initial improv was them studying history, while Ted’s father kept coming up to ask them to turn their music down.” (Solomon played Ted, Matheson was Bill.)

When the skit originated, there was a third character, Bob. But “Bob” wasn’t as into it as Solomon and Matheson, so the trio became a duo.

It’s hard to imagine anyone but Keanu Reeves playing Ted Logan, or another actor besides Alex Winter in the role of Bill S. Preston, Esq., but each actor actually auditioned for the opposite role. But when Solomon and Matheson saw their audition tapes, they thought the opposite would work better. In an online chat with Moviefone, Reeves claimed that he didn’t even know their roles had been switched until after he had been cast. “I got a call saying that I got the part,” Reeves recalled. “So I went to the wardrobe fitting… assuming I was playing Bill, and I get there and Alex Winter, who eventually played Bill, went to the wardrobe fitting thinking he was playing Ted. Then we were informed that that wasn\'t the case.”

Pauly Shore was among the hundreds of actors who auditioned for the role of Ted. In 1991, Shore hosted an MTV special,

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Premiere Party

, in which Shore corners Reeves in a back room to talk about his failed audition. Lucky for America, Shore did go on to find fame apart from

, and bring the phrase, “Hey, Bu-ddy!” into the popular lexicon.

Speaking of Pauly Shore ... For years, rumors circulated that the script for 1996’s

starring Shore and Stephen Baldwin—was actually written as the third film in the

franchise. In 2011, Winter laid this rumor to rest when he told /Film that the story is “total urban legend as far as I know. No one involved in that movie had anything to do with

. So unless they were just going to try and reboot the franchise with that concept and different actors, I can’t see a connection.”

6. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter weren\'t quite nerdy enough.

The casting of Reeves and Winter posed a problem for the script. “Bill and Ted were conceived in our minds as these 14-year-old skinny guys, with low-rider bellbottoms and heavy metal T-shirts,” Solomon told

Cinefantastique. “We actually had a scene that was even shot, with Bill and Ted walking past a group of popular kids who hate them. But once you cast Alex and Keanu, who look like pretty cool guys, that was hard to believe.”

In a 2013 Reddit AMA, Alex Winter called the casting of George Carlin (as Rufus, Bill and Ted’s mentor) “a very happy accident. They were going after serious people first. Like Sean Connery. And someone had the idea, way after we started shooting, of George. That whole movie was a happy accident. No one thought it would ever see the light of day.”

In Solomon and Matheson’s original script, it was a 1969 Chevy van that served as Bill and Ted’s time machine. But in the course of rewriting the script for Warner Bros., who showed early interest in producing the project, there was concern that a motor vehicle as time machine would ring too closely as a rip-off of

, which arrived in theaters in 1985. It was director Stephen Herek who suggested a phone booth, as he thought it could lend itself to something akin to a roller coaster in the visuals. (The phone booth’s similarity to

9. Some Nintendo lover has that phone booth.

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’s phone booth as a contest prize. The lucky winner was one Kenneth Grayson, who Reddit tracked down for an AMA in 2011. Grayson spent much of the chat answering questions about whether or not any X-rated activities had ever taken place in the phone booth.

In 1984, Solomon and Matheson wrote the script over the course of just four days. They wrote it by hand, on note paper, during a series of meetings at a couple of local coffee shops. The 2005 box set,

Bill & Ted’s Most Excellent Collection

Though Matheson is the son of legendary sci-fi writer Richard Matheson, author of

to be a science-fiction movie. “I try to consciously fight it, out of a desire to break away, but maybe I have a predilection toward that because of my dad,” Matheson told

of the inevitable fantasy elements that emerged. “He’s a great writer and craftsman, and always has suggestions.” In fact, it was the elder Matheson’s idea that the time travel story be its own movie. “We were going to write a sketch film, with this as one of the skits, but my dad said, ‘That sounds like a whole movie,’” Matheson recalled, “And he was right!”

Shortly after principal photography on the film was completed in 1987, the film’s financiers, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, went bankrupt. A straight-to-cable release was the most likely path for the time-traveling comedy until Orion Pictures and Nelson Entertainment bought the rights in 1988 for a 1989 release. Because of the delay to theaters, references to the year—which had been filmed as “1987”—had to be dubbed for 1988, resulting in a few scenes where the actors’ lips don’t quite match the sound.

, an animated series for which Reeves, Winter, and Carlin provided the voices. It lasted for one season. The title was revived as a live-action series in 1992, which included none of the original cast and ran for just seven episodes. In 1991, Marvel Comics launched

14. Back in the late 1980s, you could eat Bill and Ted.

As a tie-in to the animated series, you could—for a short while—actually start your morning with a bowl of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Cereal, which was touted as “A Most Awesome Breakfast Adventure.”

Over the past several years there has been a lot of buzz about a third

movie coming to theaters. In 2011, Winter tweeted that the script had been completed and that he was getting ready to read it. When asked about the possibility of a threequel in 2013, Reeves told the

, “I\'m open to the idea of that. I think it’s pretty surreal, playing

Bill and Ted at 50. But we have a good story in that. You can see the life and joy in those characters, and I think the world can always use some life and joy.” Several references to the possible project have been made since then, and it\'s now been confirmed that the third film,

, will film this summer for a August 2020 release.

, via a report from the Cannes Film Festival, Matheson and Solomon co-wrote the script and Dean Parisot (

) is attached to direct. Reeves and Winter will, of course, be reprising their roles, which "will see the duo long past their days as time-traveling teenagers and now weighed down by middle age and the responsibilities of family. They’ve written thousands of tunes, but they have yet to write a good one, much less the greatest song ever written." Excellent!

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Years from now, people will probably remember two major things from

’s final season: the conclusion was divisive, and the crew somehow left a modern-day coffee cup right in the middle of a scene. More than a month after that episode, “The Last of the Starks,” aired, the incident is still a hot topic. Sophie Turner, for instance, is now discussing who’s to blame.

We were told by writers & directors of #GameOfThrones that the darkness in episode 3 was our fault so I guess the #Starbucks cup in episode 4 is on us too? Can’t wait to see/hear this explanation...🤦🏼‍♂️#GOT pic.twitter.com/Cxs4NJuLzo

last month, the 23-year-old actress placed the blame on her co-star, Emilia Clarke. "I mean, look who it’s placed in front of," Turner joked. "Emilia Clarke. She’s the culprit!” For her part, Clarke posted a photo on Instagram of her from the set that showed her holding a coffee cup that looked a lot like the cup in question.

But now, Turner has changed her mind. She’s instead blaming Kit Harington for the mistake, calling him “lazy.” During a recent appearance on

, Turner said, “I hear this every day of my life, this coffee cup thing, so it’s good to know that the coffee cup got more press than the final season altogether.” Then she pointed the finger at Harington:

“The coffee cup was where Kit’s chair was. First I blamed it on Emilia, but I don’t think Emilia would do that. Kit is lazy and I think he would have done that. It was in front of Kit’s chair and then obviously he moved and this picture was taken and it looked like it was in my seat, but I wasn’t there. It was Kit. It was 100 percent Kit.”

We’ll likely never find out whose fault it was, and the coffee cup has since been removed from the episode. But screenshots live forever, so we’re sure this mistake won’t be forgotten by

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