The making of 'The Soloist'

Robert Downey Jr. on his experience with Ayers...

“Nathaniel told me that I reminded him of ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ I realized that’s what people do: ‘I’m in a new environment. That person reminds me of Lino, who I was in junior high school with.’ It’s a way of just being predictably irrational. I imagine that you soothe yourself so that you can just be okay in your skin, depending on how heightened your anxiety is.”