Robert Downey Jr explains why first Oscar win would have been ‘the worst thing’
Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeRobert Downey Jr has explained why winning the first of his three Oscar nominations in 1992 might have been “the worst thing” in hindsight. Downey Jr, 58, was recently nominated for the Best Supporting Actor prize for his performance as Admiral Lewis Strauss, the chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission, in Christopher Nolan’s epic Oppenheimer. The film, about the nuclear arms race,…