Favreau knew the scene needed emotional weight, so he decided to rewrite it himself. “He wanted that to be a bonding moment for them,” Fergus explained. “He wanted to really revel in it. It’s kind of intimate and kind of gross and kind of sexy. He really wanted that moment to land, and he spent a lot of time on that scene.” Favreau was highlighting that Tony Stark, the man with a hundred girlfriends, trusted only Pepper Potts with his heart.
