Robert Downey Jr. and Geraldine Chaplin star in 'Chaplin' trailer. The story follows comic genius Charlie Chaplin, from his humble beginnings to his masterpieces in America.
Robert Downey Jr. reflected on how it felt to finally win his first Oscar for best supporting actor last week for his scene-stealing turn as antagonist Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer.
'Senior went to his grave going," got robbed for Chaplin,"' Downey - who was also nominated in 2009 for his blackface role in Tropic Thunder - recalled. The prolific independent filmmaker passed away, at age 85, in 2021 from complications of Parkinson's disease. In 2015, the twice-rehabbed ex-con received a full and unconditional pardon from Governor of California Jerry Brown for his prior drug convictions.
But that's not how Downey's late father - Robert Downey Sr. - felt about him losing best actor as the girl-crazy silent screen legend to the iconic 83-year-old as a blind and alcoholic Army veteran Robert frequently credits the 50-year-old producer with helping him overcome his drug and alcohol addiction in 2003 after meeting on the set of Gothika, and they're proud parents of 12-year-old son Exton and nine-year-old daughter Avri
Robert will next executive produce and star as four different characters in Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar's seven-episode spy thriller The Sympathizer, which premieres April 18 on Max
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