Robert Downey Jr opened up about his feelings after winning first Oscar for best supporting actor for playing Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer.
Robert spoke about his late father- director, screenwriter and actor Robert Downey Sr – thought he was robbed in 1993 for not winning the best actor Oscar for Chaplin.
‘It’s crazy that AI Pacino, one of my favourite human beings on earth, presented Best Picture’, said Robert Downey.
He also added, ‘And it’s also crazy that, I think, he won the first time I was nominated [in 1993 for Chaplin], for Scent of a Woman, Senior went to his grave going, ‘[You] got robbed for Chaplin.’ He wouldn’t say he thought any of my other movies were very good or even that he thought Chaplin was any good, but he didn’t know that I got robbed. I think that he would feel that justice was done and that he can rest’.
Robert also opened up about his journey ‘from an uninsurable actor to an Oscar winner’. The actor spent years in the grip of drug addiction in the late ’90s and early 2000s.
He said, “I think if you develop a moral psychology, things are a lot easier. And I think it’s hard to explain away certain behaviours when there are ways to heal. So I both have a lot of empathy for, and I also am a little bit skeptical about anyone who doesn’t lean into what they can do to improve the state of their compass. That’s all.”
Earlier in March, Robert Downey Jr won his first acting Oscar in the best supporting acting category for his role in Oppenheimer. Robert was previously nominated for best actor in 1993 for Chaplin, and for best supporting actor in 2009 for Tropic Thunder.
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