CNN —Robert Downey Jr. needs to work on his British accent, according to Kate Winslet. Besides playing Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chaplin, he once auditioned for “The Holiday,” opposite Winslet, who asked him what was up with his accent. Downey Jr. appeared on a recent episode of SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show,” and recalled reading for the Nancy Meyers 2006 holiday comedy with Jimmy Fallon. “I thought, honestly, I said, ‘If Jack Black says no to this movie, I’m so in,’” Fallon recalled in the same Stern interview. “‘I’ll do it for half his price.’”Fallon also praised Downey Jr., saying, “I’m sitting across from Robert Downey Jr., and I go, ‘This is the best actor I’ve ever sat across and did a scene with in my entire life.”“It was mind-blowing for me and it kind of, I quit the business.

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