article_snippet.sent: Downey Jr has been accused of making a racist remark about an Oscar-winning Mexican director during an interview.
article_snippet.sent: The actor, who is promoting Downey Jr new film Avengers: Age of Ultron, was asked what Downey Jr thought of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's claim that superhero movies were 'cultural genocide'.
article_snippet.sent: I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright The Guardian is.'
article_snippet.sent: Robert Downey Jr (left) has been accused of making a racist remark about Oscar-winning Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu during an interview.
article_snippet.sent: Birdman said: 'I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright Robert Downey Jr (left) is' Mr Inarritu, who took home the Academy Award for best director for Birdman at this year's ceremony, slammed action films in an interview with Deadline in 2014.
highlights_snippet.sent: Birdman made remarks about Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Said in an interview last year superhero films represent 'cultural genocide'
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Downey Jr said for a Spanish-speaking man to use a phrase like that 'speaks to how bright Downey Jr is'
  Comments come just days after Downey Jr walked out of a TV interview in Britain .