Robert Downey Jr. is in the end sharing how he in reality felt about Jimmy Kimmel’s 2024 Oscars joke about his past substance abuse struggles.
“I don’t care. I love Jimmy Kimmel,” Downey, 59, shared in his Esquire profile, revealed on Monday, April 8. “I think he’s a countrywide treasure.”
Kimmel, 56, opened the 96th Academy Awards on March 10 by way of poking fun at a couple of A-listers within the audience. Downey was a major target.
“Congratulations to Cillian [Murphy]’s costar Robert Downey Jr.,” he quipped, discussing the luck of Oppenheimer during which each Murphy, 47, and Downey famous person. “This is the absolute best level of Robert Downey Jr.’s lengthy and illustrious profession. Well, probably the most absolute best points.”
Downey seemed to point at his nose upon hearing the joke.
“Was it too at the nose or used to be that a drug motion you made?” Kimmel continued. “Well, take a look at this man, he’s so handsome and proficient, he’s won each and every award there's to win … and is that an acceptance speech or do you just have an excessively rectangular penis?”
Kimmel’s roast persevered: “What a tale. Not even 20 years ago, things weren’t going that great. He played the villain in a film the place Tim Allen turns into a dog, proper? And for those who ever come to a decision to remake that film, I have simply the fellow to play Tim Allen. Messi [the canine from Anatomy of a Fall].”
Downey took it like a champ within the moment, although he motioned for Kimmel to transfer alongside, and in accordance to his Esquire interview, the actor took the jokes in stride.
The former Iron Man celebrity skilled addiction struggles in the public eye throughout the early days of his profession. He used to be arrested a number of instances and entered multiple treatment programs sooner than beginning his sobriety journey in 2003. Downey has credited his spouse, Susan Downey, on a number of events with becoming sober — and his ongoing luck.
He even discussed Susan, 50, when accepting the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer.
“I’d like to thank my horrible early life and The Academy. In that order,” Downey joked. “I’d like to thank my veterinarian, I mean my wife, Susan Downey. She found me, a snarling rescue puppy and you liked me back to lifestyles. That’s why I’m right here.”
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Downey additionally mentioned the significance of his Oppenheimer role.
“Here’s my little secret. I wished this task greater than it wanted me. I stand right here earlier than you, a greater man as a result of it,” he endured. “What we do is significant, and the stuff that we make a decision to make is vital.”
While thanking individuals of his workforce one by one, Downey additionally shouted out his entertainment legal professional, Tom Hanson, whom he’s labored with for 40 years. “The part of which he spent trying to get me insured and bailing me out, thanks, bro,” Downey quipped.
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