Johnny Depp needed to congratulate his buddy Robert Downey Jr. for his Oscar win Sunday night time, nevertheless it didn’t essentially go as deliberate.
The Pirates of the Caribbean actor initially took to his Instagram Story to have a good time the Oppenheimer star by sharing a photograph of the pair collectively. Nonetheless, it turned out it wasn’t an actual photograph of them however reasonably a photoshopped image.
The true {photograph} taken in November 1988 featured Downey together with his then-girlfriend Sarah Jessica Parker at a Younger Artists Unite occasion in Los Angeles. However the photoshopped picture changed Parker with Depp and has really circulated on social media and fan websites for years.
The Alice in Wonderland actor shortly deleted the photograph and later shared one other (actual) photograph of him with the Iron Man star on the Golden Globes in 2011. “Let’s do this once more… congrats to my pricey buddy,” Depp wrote within the caption.
Downey took house the Oscar for finest supporting actor for his portrayal of Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The win marked a excessive level within the actor’s profession, which has included some ups and downs, akin to being sentenced to jail within the late ’90s for drug expenses.
However the actor made a comeback together with his iconic function as Tony Stark/Iron Man within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, he reached a brand new triumph together with his newest Academy Award win.
“I wanted this job greater than it wanted me. Chris [Nolan] knew it. Emma [Thomas] made positive she surrounded me with one of many best casts and crew of all time,” Downey mentioned throughout his acceptance speech on Sunday, in addition to thanking his “leisure lawyer, Tom Hansen, of 40 years. The half of which he’s spent attempting to get me insured and bailing me out of the hoosegow, thanks bro!”