Robert Downey Jr. 'Avengers' Interview: Actor Walks Out After Being Questioned About Past Drug Use

Robert Downey Jr. walks out from an interview supposed to promote the new Avengers: Age of Ultron with Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy whose questions want to probe more about the actor's dark past.

The interview went well in the first few minutes but got tensed at the four-minute when the presenter took the interview to a new direction asking the actor about his response in a 2008 New York Times interview that talks about his incarceration, a report from Salon said.

The Iron Man actor, at this point, still participated in the interview by giving a neutral answer.

"I have a really interesting political point of view, and it's not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here. But you can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal," Downey said.

He further said saying that his point of view might be different compared with what he had years ago.

"The funny thing is, things you said 5-7 years ago - or things you said in an interview that made sense to you at the time - I could pick that apart for two hours and I'd be no closer to the truth than to some half-assed answer right now. I couldn't even tell you what a liberal is. So therein lies your answer."

However, according to New York Times, Guru-Murthy is persistent with his line of questioning asking if his views have been changed after he was discharged from prison and became a liberal.

"Um, are we promoting a movie?" the married actor responded quickly taking off his microphone, getting up from his chair and taking his exit from the set.

"You seem OK, it was just getting a little Diane Sawyer and you're kind of a schmuck," the actor said before taking his final leave.

This is not the first time that TV presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy took his interviews to a wrong direction.

Mirror remembered that his past interview with Django director Quentin Tarantino made the latter furious when he asked the director's opinion about making violent movies and enjoying real-life violence.

During the interview, Tarantino fired back saying, "Don't ask me a question like that, I'm not biting. I refuse your question."