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Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. shoot extra scenes as Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes in Camden for Guy Ritchie’s next movie. They were called back on set after studio bosses told Ritchie to weave in a new plot involving Holmes’ nemesis Moriarty Quins.

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Our bessie mate Robert Downey Jr. is reportedly in talks to play the vampire Lestat, according to the guys over at Bloody Disgusting. The sometime-Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes may add Lestat to his character gallery if he signs a deal to star in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles.

Vampires are, of course, so hot right now after Twilight and TV’s True Blood, and Downey Jr. would be a hot choice for a vampire. But what can we expect to see? Interview with the Vampire, with Tom Cruise in the Lestat role, covered the first book in the series, and Queen of the Damned, with Stuart Townsend taking the role, the third. The middle one is mostly prequel, explaining how Lestat came to be the vampire he became, and why he’s not such a bad fellow as he might have appeared in Interview.

Whether Downey will take the role remains to be seen: he would seem a little old for it, given that Lestat’s supposed to have become a vampire as a very young man, aged about 20 if memory serves, and of course shouldn’t have aged since.

And given that Downey’s already juggling Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes, and that he already had to drop Oobermind because of scheduling conflicts, does he have time to sign on to another franchise-in-waiting? Only time will tell.

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Robert Downey Jr. enjoyed the great outdoors with a cigar over looking the beach during a private Memorial Day party in Malibu, CA May 25, 2009. Downey has been hard at work on the set of “Iron Man 2” but the holiday calls for friends and family a close get away.

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Robert Downey Jr. trains with a coach on the set of Iron Man 2 in Los Angeles, California on May 19, 2009. The actor is seen sporting a pretty serious black eye on his left side. Did he injure himself while training? Or is it makeup for his character, Tony Stark?

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Everyone looks amazing!  Except for Jenna Malone, that is - who is really freaking skinny!   Pictured below are Robert Downey Jr. and his wife, Jamie Foxx, Halle Berry, Anna Friel, Catherine Keener, Jenna Malone & Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

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