Robert Downey Jr. recently won his first Academy Award — and the 'Oppenheimer' star already has firm ideas about what he should and shouldn't do with his Oscar statuette. .
“I don't think you should walk around and carry it around to the after-party. I don't think you should flaunt it,” he told E! News at the premiere of his new series “The Sympathizer” last week.
“We couldn't get him to carry it that night,” opined his wife, Susan Downey.
The actor insists he doesn't show off his statuette, but added: “I also don't think it should be used as a toilet paper holder or anything.”
Toki E! When Oscar asked where it was in the house, Downey Jr. replied, “It's in the front door right now.”
The “Iron Man” actor accepted the Best Supporting Actor award last month and thanked his “terrible childhood and the Academy” in his speech.
This was his first win and his third Academy Award nomination.
Downey Jr. was nominated for his first Best Actor Oscar for his role as Charlie Chaplin in the 1992 film Chaplin, but later explained that he was lucky not to win at the time.
“I was young and crazy, so I guess I thought I was on the right path,” Downey, then only 28, said in an interview on “The View” in January.
Downey Jr. never gave up hope of winning an Oscar, and as he told GQ in 2013, he always thought he would win at least one.
“Well, I know it's going to happen,” he told the magazine at the time, confidently adding, “It's just a fact.”
“Personally, I would be shocked if I got to the end of the tape right now and didn't have at least one,” Downey Jr. posed. “You know, even if I don't get presents directly, they're just going to give me presents when I get older. So no matter how you slice it, I I’ll get it.”
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