In an interview with the cohosts of The View posted Wednesday, Robert Downey Jr. stated that not successful his first of three Academy Award nominations for taking part in Charlie Chaplin in 1992’s Chaplin got here as a reduction.
“I was young and crazy,” Downey Jr. stated by means of rationalization. He misplaced to Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman. Had he gained, Downey stated, it “would have put me under the impression that I was on the right track.”
He stated to Whoopi Goldberg, his costar within the 1991 comedy Soapdish, “Whoopi remembers.”
“We were on those tracks together,” agreed Goldberg.
Following his first Oscar nomination, Downey Jr. underwent “30 years of dependency, depravity and despair,” he stated.
Downey additionally expressed happiness for his nomination for Oppenheimer this yr.
“I was just so happy for all 13 nominations,” he stated, including he “couldn’t believe that it was Emily Blunt’s first Oscar nomination.”
Downey Jr. performs U.S. Atomic Energy Commission chairman Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s Best Picture contender.
The 96th Academy Awards will air dwell on Sunday, March 10, from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.