ALBUQUERQUE – Saving the world is serious business for a superhero. But when Robert Downey Jr. starts a battle scene on the set of The Avengers, he doesn't exactly have on an Iron Man face.
Just before cameras roll, the smiling actor whispers up a competition with his co-stars — Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris Evans (Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (The Hulk), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) and Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow). Whoever gives the most distracting off-camera look to Tom Hiddleston (enemy Loki) wins.
"For an entire take, they are all giving these seductive, come-on faces," Hiddleston says. "I had to fight to keep a straight face."
Laughter, it turns out, is a powerful weapon in the Avengers arsenal as the film hits theaters May 4. The greatest collection of comic-book superheroes ever assembled on-screen brings plenty of humor in the movie — and even more humor off-screen, thanks to Downey.
"We look at him as our quarterback," Evans says. "He's always smiling. And that's infectious."
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