Robert Downey Jr.’s surprising announcement in an interview this Wednesday (incl Deadline), the actor said “released” Because he didn’t win an Oscar for his role in Richard Attenborough’s Chaplin in 1993. He lost to Al Pacino, who won the statue for Le Temps d’un weekend.
“I was young and impulsive” He comments. “If I won, it would make me feel like I was on the right track.”He recalls that in the wake of this first Oscar quote, he lived “30 years of addiction, depravity and despair.”
From the 80s to the early 90s, Robert Downey Jr. was one of the most promising actors of his generation. It was at this still bright time that he got the role Chaplin.
Blessing soon?
Although his performance garnered favorable reviews, the film was a highly unfair and painful commercial failure, despite the huge investment in Downey Jr.’s role, grossing less than $10 million at the international box office. That did not prevent the actor from being nominated for the best actor at the Oscars.
The only one to date, in fact, has been a Best Supporting Actor citation since 2009’s Thunder in the Tropics. It is in this category that he is set to compete again for his flawless performance in Oppenheimer, in which he plays Louis Strauss, an American politician who played a key role in the creation of the atomic bomb.
Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for the film, he has a very good chance to win the top honor on March 10 at the 96th Academy Awards. At 58, his time may have come.
Source: Allocine
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