Robert Downey Jr., who just lately obtained his third Oscar nomination for his efficiency as Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, has had a busy awards season. Nonetheless, in comparison with 1993, when he was nominated for his first Academy Award for Finest Main Actor for his efficiency as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin, he’s in a really totally different place this 12 months.
Throughout a latest interview on The View, the actor mentioned why, in his opinion, profitable an Oscar that 12 months on the age of 28 would have been the worst factor for his profession.
“I used to be younger and loopy,” Downey Jr. mentioned. “It will have put me underneath the impression that I used to be heading in the right direction.”
Al Pacino, who took dwelling the Finest Actor trophy for his efficiency in Scent of a Lady, in the end defeated the actor.
After receiving his first Oscar nomination, Robert Downey Jr. encountered authorized points many times. Within the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s, he was arrested and imprisoned a number of instances for drug-related crimes.
Downey Jr. has talked over time about his prior battles with habit and his sobriety, however he additionally talked about his 1999 jail 12 months final 12 months, referring to it as “the worst factor that occurred to me.” Moreover, he described his time in jail as “being despatched to a distant planet the place there is no such thing as a manner dwelling till the planets align” in an interview with the Armchair Knowledgeable podcast.
Robert Downey Jr. performed Tony Stark/Iron Man within the 2004 movie and reprised the function in a number of films together with Avengers: Endgame. He was nominated for an Oscar for Tropic Thunder in 2009 and has obtained a latest nomination for Oppenheimer, which has 13 nominations at this 12 months’s ceremony.
