Robert Downey Jr. signs autographs while leaving Mr. Chow restaurant after having dinner with Swingers star/Iron Man director Jon Favreau to celebrate the weekend box office success of Iron Man in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

RDJ, 43, recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly and talked about the next Iron Man movie. Here’s what he said:

When you were brainstorming with Jon Favreau, what were the elements that you wanted to bring to the next Iron Man movie?
There’s this idea of Terrence [Howard] putting on a suit and coming back as War Machine, who is pretty iconic in the Iron Man and Marvel universe. Just seeing where it can all go, but grounding it in a very modern mythology. I see it as greatest dysfunctional family story ever told…. In The New York Post a couple days ago, [there was a cartoon] of Iron Man suited up, and he’s telling the governor even his super-powers can’t get him out of the budget problem. That was what Jon was hoping for and excited to see the most, the idea that Tony Stark and Iron Man can become part of the cultural fabric. When we heard posters were being defaced to promote political or social ideas, he just got such a hoot out of that.

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Gwyneth Paltrow really looks like a fish stick in her scale-y Jean Paul Gaultier dress at the Iron Man premiere at Warner Moderno Cinema on Wednesday in Rome, Italy.

“Iron Man was definitely a testosterone-fest. I was the only girl for miles, except for the women working in the wardrobe, hair and makeup departments,” Gwyn said. “I would have time off when the guys would go blow things up in the desert, and every time I went back to work, they were happy to have a girl there. They had kind of forgotten that there were women in the world.”

The 35-year-old actress joined director Jon Favreau and costars Terrence Howard and Robert Downey Jr.. Iron Man opens everywhere May 2.

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Actress Gwyneth Paltrow (in Stella McCartney) attends the photocall to the movie Iron Man at the Ritz-Carlton on Tuesday in Berlin, Germany.

Gwyneth Paltrow, 35, plays Robert Downey Jr.’s secretary and love interest Virginia Potts. She read many of the Iron Man comics owned by her husband Chris Martin (who is a major comics fan), to prepare for the part.

Iron Man is scheduled to be released May 2, 2008.

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Gwyneth Paltrow talks business over dinner with director Jon Favreau in Berlin, Germany on Monday.

The director-actor pair dined at Ottenthal restaurant, which combines both the traditional and contemporary cuisine of Austria. They are in town in promote their superhero flick, Iron Man, out May 2.

According to reports, Gwyn, 35, donated $75,000 to the Food Bank for New York City.

“I’ve been thinking about all the crap my children have and how much food we throw away,” Ms. Paltrow said. “We have to do better.”

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