Robert Downey Jnr rekindles Sarah Jessica connection after 1980s romance
HAVING dated for seven years in the 1980s Robert Downey Jnr was keen to renew acquaintances with Sarah Jessica Parker when in New York recently.
Robert and Sarah dated in the 80s but she has since married Matthew Broderick
So much so in fact that the 50-year-old Avengers star asked her husband Matthew Broderick for permission beforehand - and it appears to have gone rather well.
"She's so great and so cool and so funny. I saw the way she and Matthew lived and I respect both of them so much," says Robert, after telling radio DJ Howard Stern it was his intention to see Sarah again.
Robert Downey asked Parker's husband Matthew Broderick for permission to meet up again
They met in 1984 on the set of Firstborn. "It was really cool. I went over to her place and we went to some tapas place on the corner."
After Robert was rumoured to have had a security team "bigger than the president's" for a recent trip to a New York eaterie we hardly imagine it was a low-key affair.