Robert Downey Jr. on Supporting Cillian Murphy at SBIFF Tribute – IndieWire

Though Robert Downey Jr. was at the 2024 Santa Barbara International Movie Celebration to approve the Maltin Modern Master Honor, the very best Supporting Star frontrunner utilized a considerable quantity of his time on phase to fête his “Oppenheimer” co-star Cillian Murphy, that remained in presence.

“It’s been very seldom in my career that I’ve realized that I was born to play a supporting role in favor of somebody else rightfully having the spotlight,” Downey claimed prior to presenting the present Best Star candidate to the phase to share some statements regarding their time collaborating on the Christopher Nolan movie. “I was afforded a deeply humiliating clinic on masterful acting in exceptional cinematic experiences.”

Regarding Murphy, he claimed “I’ve always known him and always respected him and loved his work and all of my peers know he’s great, but he had yet to have a vehicle where he could fully demonstrate the breadth of his capacity and I’ve never seen anything like it. And it is an honor to be way under him on the call sheet for ‘Oppenheimer.’”

In return, his co-star called Downey “the most versatile actor of his generation,” stating “Robert works incredibly hard to make it look so easy because all the great ones do,” to much praise. After discussing exactly how he’s currently discovered himself worked out right into the duty of Downey’s straight guy, Murphy obtained a laugh from the target market by stating,“Every minute that I spent with him on camera was pure bliss, even though his character wanted me to disappear into a black hole and never come back.”

Downey later on offered even more understanding on exactly how “Oppenheimer” writer-director Christopher Nolan defined the partnership in between the titular lead character and his personality Lewis Strauss. “He said, ‘Basically Cillian’s “Amadeus”– he’s Mozart, your Salieri– get involved in it.’ And I resembled, ‘I’ m typically playing Mozart,'” claimed the evening’s guest of honor, generating giggling. “He’s like, ‘Cillian’s the guy for this, trust me. Whole fucking movie is about him and you’re playing the bad guy,’” includedDowney “Yep. Sounds about right.”

Appearing of a years as the highest possible paid star in the sector as “Iron Man,” the number that released the Wonder Cinematic Cosmos, Downey really felt humbled by the procedure of capturing “Oppenheimer,” sensation thankful that he was also used the possibility to play Strauss. “I wouldn’t be here tonight if I hadn’t participated with Cillian as the head of the acting department under the tutelage of Chris Nolan,” he claimed. “There’d be no reason to have me here as a modern master, because what have I done for you lately?”

While he has actually maintained hectic considering that his job resurgence in 2008, looking like Tony Stark in 10 MCU movies, Downey claimed of his current job, “I’m not saying I’d gotten at all lazy, but it was more like rolling off a log for the last 10 years or so.” There was an aspect of “Oppenheimer” that daunted him. “I wouldn’t say I was mortified, but Cillian has only seen me on this last film where if I’m not prepared within an inch of my life, I will probably evaporate,” he claimed. “You don’t roll off logs around Chris Nolan.”

Currently having actually called the movie “the best movie I’ve ever been a part of,” among the last points Downey claimed in his approval speech, after his long time pal Rob Lowe and Murphy handed him the real statuette for the Maltin Modern Master Honor, was an information of what his co-star shared previously. “Cillian is a straight man to no one,” he claimed, once more to much praise. “He is just beginning to understand by the reaction he gets when he comes to places that he’s a fucking force of nature.”