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Robert Downey Jr. walked down memory lane on The View with his Soapdish co-star and the ABC talk show host Whoopi Goldberg. The all-women panel welcomed the actor and congratulated him for his Oscar nomination for Oppenheimer. However, he quickly rolled back in time to recall his “off-track” experiences with Goldberg.
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While they discussed his outstanding performance in Oppenheimer, moderator Joy Behar refreshed everyone’s memory when Downey Jr. received his first Oscar nomination for Chaplin thirty years ago (in 1992). The 81-year-old said, “You were so great in that role, but ultimately, you lost to Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman,” as per Decider.
However, the 58-year-old admitted that winning an Oscar then would have been the worst thing that year. He laughed at Behar’s statement and said, “Because I was young and crazy, and it would have put me under the impression that I was on the right track,” and quipped, “Whoopi remembers.” And the fellow co-hosts burst out laughing.
Goldberg added, “Well, we were on those tracks together.
