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Robert Downey Jr. compared his preparation for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer to « picking fly shit out of pepper. » In a recent interview published online, Downey Jr. shared how working on HBO’s The Sympathizer was a reprieve from the intensity of filming Nolan’s 2023 movie, according to HuffPost. Earlier in March, Downey Jr. earned his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for portraying the manipulative government official Lewis Strauss in the film. He also discussed the contrasting challenges he encountered while filming the new HBO black comedy drama.
Downey Jr. said, “I knew that playing Strauss, in Oppenheimer, was going to be like picking fly shit out of pepper—that it was going to be extremely exacting, that it was going to be . . . not confining, but liberating by its varied implicit limitations of what my usual toolbox is. » In Oppenheimer, Downey Jr. takes on the role of a member of the Atomic Energy Commission and the antagonist to physicist J.
