Robert Downey Jr. ''eyeing'' retirement

Robert Downey Jr. will think about winding down his film career if his new detective movie Sherlock Holmes flops. However, he admitted that he will do a Jay-Z by proclaiming his retirement and then returning months later with an exciting new project.

Updated on: Nov 21, 2009, 20:57:00 IST

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Robert Downey Jr. will think about winding down his film career if his new detective movie Sherlock Holmes flops.

However, he admitted that he will do a Jay-Z by proclaiming his retirement and then returning months later with an exciting new project, reports The Daily Express.

He tells Entertainment Weekly, "I can only be a guy on a call sheet probably, I don''t know, maybe a couple more times. It''s something I''m so grateful to have in my palm, and yet I already see its inevitable decay.

"If Sherlock Holmes performs well, I could be busy for the next 5 or 7 or 10 years. But we''d like to go ahead and suggest the Jay-Z model wherein one announces his retirement, soaks in all the requisite fanfare, and then behaves like it never happened. It''s really the best of both worlds."

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