Robert Downey Jr. took some time out from his big-screen play-acting in order to engage in a real-life act of heroism recently, bringing a bright moment to a young boy with a serious physical impairment.
Downey, star of the “Iron Man” superhero-movie franchise, teamed up with the Collective Project to brighten the day of a seven-year-old boy named Alex, who was born with a partially developed right arm.
The actor, in character as billionaire playboy industrialist Tony Stark (aka Iron Man), along with Albert Manero, a college student who builds and donates 3D-printed bionic limbs to kids around the world, met with Alex to present the tyke with his own functioning version of an Iron Man arm, which he quickly used to share a fist-bump with Downey. Something tells us that Alex just earned some serious playground bragging rights.
There won’t be anything bionic about the lump in your throat when you watch the clip.
