--- description: Mmm, bacon. title: Watch Robert Downey Jr. Get All Emotional Over Bacon image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Robert Downey Jr. Get All Emotional Over Bacon by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 28, 2015 3:00 PM CUT by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 28, 2015 3:00 PM CUT Robert Downey Jr., is an emotional chameleon, if he does say so himself — and he does in this clip from _The Tonight Show._ The _Avengers: Age of Ultron_ star stopped by the show and proved his acting chops in a round of “Emotional Interview.” In the challenge, the two actors have a conversation while shifting from one emotional extreme to another at the sound of a bell. Fallon and Downey show off their inner “annoyingly philosophical” guys before perfectly becoming two A-list stars desperately fishing for compliments. Then Downey smoothly segues into a man who really, really smells bacon and likes it. It’s the perfect combination of _Inside the Actors Studio_ and _The Manchurian Candidate_ with some big laughs along the way. ### See Avengers: Age Of Ultron Concept Art  Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.) Marvel  Captain America (Chris Evans) Marvel  Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) Marvel  Thor (Chris Hemsworth) Marvel  Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) Marvel  Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) Marvel  Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) Marvel  Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Vision (Paul Bettany) Marvel ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3838011/robert-downey-jr-emotional-bacon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3838011/robert-downey-jr-emotional-bacon/"},"headline":"Watch Robert Downey Jr. Get All Emotional Over Bacon","datePublished":"2015-04-28T15:00:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:41.528Z","description":"Mmm, bacon.","url":"https://time.com/3838011/robert-downey-jr-emotional-bacon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","movies","jimmy fallon","The Tonight Show","Robert Downey Jr.","avengers: age of ultron"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3838011/robert-downey-jr-emotional-bacon/","name":"Watch Robert Downey Jr. Get All Emotional Over Bacon"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"New Avengers Trailer Arrives — Marvel's Avengers Age of Ultron Trailer 2","description":"A new Avengers trailer has been released!","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/FW2bEFbl/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-01-13T03:52:35.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/FW2bEFbl.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3838011/robert-downey-jr-emotional-bacon/","duration":"PT1M30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3838011/robert-downey-jr-emotional-bacon/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```