Actor Robert Downey Jr. admitted it was probably better that he did not win the Oscar when he was nominated for the best actor award three decades ago — for his performance in the 1993 biopic “Chaplin.”
The “Iron Man” star made the revelation on ABC’s “The View” last week, just after the news broke that he had been nominated in the best supporting actor category for his turn as Admiral Lewis Strauss in the Christopher Nolan-directed “Oppenheimer” (2023).
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“You lost to Al Pacino for ‘Scent of a Woman,’” Joy Behar pointed out. “Now you say it actually would have been the worst thing for you to have won that year.”
Downey Jr. laughed, saying, “Ah, because I was young and crazy and it would have put me under the impression that I was on the right track. Whoopi remembers.”
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