Playing Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer (2023), Robert Downey Jr. was the big winner of the 2024 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor
Biggest role of his career Robert Downey Jr. after interpreting Iron Man/Tony Stark at the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Lewis Straussof the movie Oppenheimer (2023), was “taking s*** out of flies.”
It is worth remembering how, through the role of Strauss, Downey Jr. it won Oscars 2024 in Best Supporting Actor. During an interview with Empirethe artist compared the technical precision required of him in this role with the different demands he faced while filming The Sympathizercomedy drama from HBO co-created by Park Chan-wook.
“I knew that playing Straussin Oppenheimerit would be like picking s*** out of flies – that would be extremely demanding, that would be… not confining, but liberating through the various implicit limitations of what my usual toolbox is,” he said.
Then I had the feeling that, like a coiled spring, Sympathizer would be my relaxation.
Source: Rollingstone
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