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Robert Downey Jr. Is Grateful He Lost Best Actor at 1993 Oscars: I Was ‘Young and Crazy’ and It Would’ve Made Me Think ‘I Was on the Right Track’

Robert Downey say he was too "young and crazy" to become an Oscar winner in the early 1990s.

“I was young and crazy,” Downey Jr. said, adding that an Oscar win at 28 years old “would have put me under the impression that I was on the right track.” Downey Jr.’s history with the law made him a tough sell to Marvel for the career-defining role of Tony Stark/Iron Man. He was former Marvel Studios’ president David Maisel’s top pick, but “my board thought I was crazy to put the future of the company in the hands of an addict.”

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