Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Jr.
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Johnny Depp wished to congratulate his pal Robert Downey Jr. for his Oscar win Sunday evening, but it surely didn’t essentially go as deliberate.
The Pirates of the Caribbean actor initially took to his Instagram Story to have fun the Oppenheimer star by sharing a photograph of the pair collectively. Nevertheless, it turned out it wasn’t an actual picture of them however quite a photoshopped image.
The actual {photograph} taken in November 1988 featured Downey along 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 rapidly deleted the picture and later shared one other (actual) picture of him with the Iron Man star on the Golden Globes in 2011. “Let’s do this once more… congrats to my pricey pal,” Depp wrote within the caption.
Downey took dwelling the Oscar for greatest 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, equivalent to being sentenced to jail within the late ’90s for drug fees.
However the actor made a comeback along with his iconic function as Tony Stark/Iron Man within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, he reached a brand new triumph along with his newest Academy Award win.
“I wanted this job greater than it wanted me. Chris [Nolan] knew it. Emma [Thomas] made certain 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 making an attempt to get me insured and bailing me out of the hoosegow, thanks bro!”