Oscars 2024: Robert Downey Jr. Is Inevitable

“It was one of those things where he was like, ‘I’m sorry but we didn’t come this far for me to let you off the hook,’” Downey continued. “It was a big moment of like, I have to break through this.… Whatever our own lazy meter is, it’s in there somewhere, and that’s the thing you have to find—and erase—to grow.” His experience on Chaplin was similar to the pressures faced by his costar Murphy as the lead in Oppenheimer: carrying nearly every scene in a vast historical drama populated by a sprawling ensemble. But even in comparing the two… Read Full Article