Rob Lowe revealed throughout a current look on Jimmy Kimmel Reside that he mistakenly texted Cooper a congratulatory message after the Golden Globes that he meant to ship to Robert Downey Jr.
The worst half? Cooper was nominated for a Golden Globe award that night for Maestro, however he misplaced to Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy.
“Downey does this superb acceptance speech on the Golden Globes, and I’m so excited for him so I textual content him, ‘So glad you received. That’s the most stunning acceptance speech I’ve heard in a very long time. Boy, do you deserve it,’” Lowe recalled, per Selection.
“I hit it and I realise, ‘Oh sh*t. I simply despatched that to Bradley Cooper.’”
He defined that he instantly adopted up with one other textual content to clear up the confusion.
“I mentioned, ‘No, no, I meant that for Robert Downey Jr,’” Lowe mentioned. “Now that’s even worse! I made the man really feel worse! It was horrible.”
Downey took house the primary Golden Globe of his profession that night for his efficiency in Oppenheimer.
The Marvel star just lately appeared on an episode of Lowe’s podcast Actually, the place they mentioned his profession engaged on blockbuster movies. Downey particularly defended the controversial function he performed within the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder, during which he performed a technique actor who wears blackface for a task.
The actor maintained that the satirical movie was meant to criticise “all of those tropes that aren’t proper and [that] had been perpetuated for too lengthy” in Hollywood.
He in contrast the movie to Norman Lear‘s Seventies sitcom All within the Household, which included a disclaimer noting that the present “seeks to throw a humorous highlight on our frailties, prejudices, and issues … to indicate — in a mature trend — simply how absurd they’re.”
“The language was saying, ‘Hey, that is the explanation that we’re doing these items that, in a vacuum, you would choose aside and say are improper and dangerous,’” Downey mentioned on the podcast.
He continued, “There was once an understanding with an viewers, and I’m not saying that the viewers is not understanding — I’m saying that issues have gotten very muddied.”
This text initially appeared in Decider and was reproduced with permission.
