In an interview with the cohosts of The View posted Wednesday, Robert Downey Jr., mentioned that not winnig his first of three Academy Award nominations for taking part in Charlie Chaplin in 1992’s Chaplin got here as a aid.
“I used to be younger and loopy,” Downey Jr. mentioned by the use of clarification. He misplaced to Al Pacino in Scent of a Lady. Had he gained, Downey mentioned, it “would have put me underneath the impression that I used to be heading in the right direction.”
He mentioned to Whoopi Goldberg, his costar within the 1991 comedy Soapdish, “Whoopi remembers.”
“We had been on these tracks collectively,” agreed Goldberg.
Following his first Oscar nomination, Downey Jr. underwent “30 years of dependency, depravity and despair,” he mentioned.
Downey additionally expressed happiness for his nomination for Oppenheimer this yr.
“I used to be simply so glad for all 13 nominations,” he mentioned, including he “couldn’t imagine that it was Emily Blunt’s first Oscar nomination.”
Downey Jr. performs U.S. Atomic Power Fee chairman Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s Finest Image contender.
The 96th Academy Awards will air stay on Sunday, March 10, from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
