“ Downey approached LA Wing Chun Academy founder Eric Oram about lessons.Oram was dubious about the notorious actor’s commitment at first.
“When he first came to me, insurance companies wouldn’t bond him for
movies; he couldn’t get roles,“ Oram told Men’s Journal
in 2011. “I told him if he didn’t show up to a lesson, I was going to
chop off his toes and feed them back to him. One day he didn’t turn up,
and I told him goodbye. Then he had a couple of producers call me and
vouch for him, saying, ‘He was with us in a meeting; he didn’t have a
phone. It’s our fault. Don’t cut his head off.’ He has committed himself
to it ever since and turned his life around.”
“Robert’s focus is night and day from when we first began,” Oram told Men’s Fitness. “This shotgun mind of his channeled it into a single point of focus and turned it into a laser. The training demands it.”
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