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Don Cheadle has been talking about the experience of stepping into James Rhodes’ armored shoes in next year’s Iron Man 2, revealing the questions that drove him, and explaining why there’s more to him than… well, him, in the movie.

When asked what the most surprising aspect of making Iron Man 2 was, Cheadle gave a surprising answer:

“I didn’t expect the “Rhodey CGI” character to work more days than me. I didn’t think my stuntman would work as many days as I did. But you know, really it’s a combination of your work. You’re in this motion capture suit, then stuntmen do some stuff, you get to do some stuff, then they don’t need any of you and they draw it themselves.”

That doesn’t mean that Cheadle wasn’t able to bring some actorly questions to the role, however:

“I just really had more questions than answers about the relationship. When I looked back over the comic books, all of the different iterations of Iron Man and Rhodey that there have been, the one thing that seemed like it was always there was this friendship. There was a real friendship and underlying kinship. I was always asking, “Where did it come from? What’s it based on? How tenuous is it, now that Tony is kind of a free agent and Rhodey is a military man? How does that work?” That’s what drove my questions about our relationship for the whole movie… “Why are these guys friends? On what level do they connect and on what level do they miss each other?” So it was constantly tweaking stuff, improv-ing a lot and grinding over scenes to figure out how that worked.”

More importantly, perhaps, on what level is Cheadle’s James Rhodes able to carry a spin-off movie by himself…? Not that he’s offering any hints about that right now:

“We haven’t discussed that. I have no idea. Maybe. Potentially.”

Why do we feel as if, if he’d been given enough time, he would’ve just come out and said yes eventually? The movie release will be proceeded by an Iron Man cartoon series. Early reports have been positive towards the cartoon and it seems like many fans are anticipating the release.

Out of my many experiences with customer support, ATT UVerse is most definitely the very worst. I don’t think it can get any poorer unless apes answered the calls.

After reading so a ton of appealing U-verse stories , I called for television and internet service. They scheduled me for our install 10 days after at midday.

So I took the day off to be at home ( a person over 18 has to be home ). At 1 I called them to check on the location of the tech. They repeatedly transferred me to another phone operator and after 1/2 hr, a rep informed me they didn’t have my address so they had to reschedule me. I said, “You didn’t have the brains to just call me ?” The only thing she said without any feeling behind it was, “Sorry. We can move your date for a few weeks from now.” Huh ? Suddenly 9 days without service became over a month

No sir. So I dialed them every single day

After 9 calls, many hours listening to classical, a billion transfers to idiots who kept sending me back to original department, a slew of dialtones whenever I requested a supervisor, I finally got the date changed to a few days later. Guess what? Same story as before.

After all this, I’m through with it. Don’t be a zombie and find someone else besides U-verse with everyone else.