Chef

film by Favreau [2014]

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  • Jon Favreau
    In Jon Favreau: Marvel blockbusters and Disney movies

    (2011) and wrote and directed Chef (2014), in which he also starred, alongside Downey and Scarlett Johansson. He directed and served as a voice actor in The Jungle Book (2016)—which took home an Oscar for visual effects—and directed another animated Disney movie, The Lion King (2019).

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Downey

  • Robert Downey, Jr.
    In Robert Downey, Jr.: Iron Man series and Oppenheimer

    director Jon Favreau’s pet project, Chef (2014), before playing a lawyer defending his father (Robert Duvall), who is accused of vehicular homicide, in The Judge (2014). He reprised the role of Tony Stark in the Iron Man sequels (2010 and 2013), The Avengers (2012) and its sequels (2015, 2018,

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Hoffman

  • John Schlesinger: Midnight Cowboy
    In Dustin Hoffman

    …as a restaurant owner in Chef (2014) and then appeared in the television adaptation Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot (2015), based on a children’s book about a bachelor romancing his tortoise-loving neighbour (Judi Dench). In 2017 he starred in The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), playing a sculptor preparing for a…

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Johansson

  • Scarlett Johansson
    In Scarlett Johansson

    …a kindhearted restaurant hostess in Chef (2014), a woman who develops superpowers after a mind-expanding drug enters her system in Lucy (2014), and a starlet in the Coen brothers’ comedy Hail, Caesar! (2016). Johansson’s 2017 credits included Ghost in the Shell, in which she portrayed a cyborg woman who battles…

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