Robert Downey Jr. on Golden Globes Win for Oppenheimer, Getting Starstruck & Changing Eating Habits

first gu is backstage RAR and a go he is a twice Oscar nominated actor and Founding Father of the Marvel Cinematic Universe he won a trophy this weekend for his work as Admiral Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer please welcome Robert Downey [Applause] Jr how you do well that's you know I mean it's it's starting to get frightening well that was quite a reception I can't help but notice I didn't get like an eighth of that when I came out but you deserve it Congratulations by the way on the Golden Globe on Sunday night you know I

heard um I have some insight into that I heard it was unanimous I heard you won you got all the votes none of the other actors got any votes you got them all yeah boy that must feel good for any of my co- nominees watching I'm sure they've forgotten it already you're right you mentioned in your speech as soon as I heard it I wanted to ask you about it because you said I took a beta blocker before I came up here yes direct quote was uh I just dropped a beta blocker so this will

be a breeze now by the way I should have gotten some a mega in this that was a billion dooll moment it just went right by me you need to make an endorsement deal with a pharmaceutical company the next time you mention a drug on the air be a radical turn I mean look they're fun they're they're good once in a while you can't you can't depend on them is that true tell me about them because I took one one time and I didn't feel like it did anything right well that's that that's why it's

actually okay to take it I see okay yeah it does something but you don't go like oh my God I'd like to take 300 of those uh-huh um it just kind of takes the edge off and uh and it worked a treat is it good to take the edge off uh I think when you if you feel like you might Panic if your name gets called do you know what it's like when you're nominated for Golden Globe you guys can relate to this right do you because I'm surprised by this because you seem like the

most confident I maybe the most confident person I've ever met my whole life you get nervous in situations like that yes I'm a human person uh and sometimes like flying does anyone else ever bug out a little when they fly I hate to admit it but it's just it's I don't like hurdling through the air at 500 milph it's just too weird a concept you're Iron Man how is that possible I know [Music] well this is this is part of my new campaign to like share my Humanity with everybody it's working than it's very relatable

it's very relatable super relatable think by the way I'd like to thank jger for this uh ,000 you relate right watch endorsements when you go to a show like that yeah while we're talking about nerves you get is there anybody you get nervous meeting or are you beyond that um well I'll give a little insight into my experience I look over at one table of Martin sh goes um did you call him did you call Martin I know his number um Merill Street came over and I wasn't creeping out but I was just like talking

to her and like feeling the consistency of her dress shoulder like downloading the data cuz it was a moment oh there you are oh yeah you really are huh oh my God yeah that's yeah that's you I don't remember doing that it's the beta blocker those beta blers I think she had a little crumb of food on her cheek and I was embarrassed for her so I was just lapping it up I almost ran right into uh Julia Garner and then I saw uh Timothy shalam he had this like sequin number on I was like

wow he's he's uh he's kind of amazing do people like Timothy shamay and there aren't many people like Timothy shalamay let's be honest he's kind of a unicorn in it of himself but these young stars who seem to have a very very bright future ahead of them did they ask you for advice do you offer advice uh I mean occasionally honestly I just feel like I'm training my Replacements and looking at them I'm like wow you're young and super talented hi I'm Grandpa that's kind of like that your first Oscar nomination was in 1993 right

yikes 1993 you were nominated for at this for a minute yeah that was a big deal for you yes that was a big deal um yeah and I thought I think I was a bit of a pseudo hipster back then I was wearing like platform boots oh good and I had a oh dear there it is look at that Little Shop of Horrors tie I have yeah yeah he had his act together anyway um everybody was wearing this in '93 oh yeah exactly I mean it's like I time traveled from the 17th century onto the

stage um and I just remember too like they were the and the Oscar goes to alpacino and I was like they they must they must have misread that because when you're 26 you're so can you you know when you're in your 20s you're like everything's going to go my way forever and then life kicks you in the sack so you really until that moment you heard Al Pacino's name you felt certain that you were going to win nobody else did except me made it even weirder they're like in the Winns and people like did you

have that thing where you had the speech in your pocket and then you have to destroy it afterwards for fear I mean I I think if I had a speech in my pocket it was probably written on a piece of papyrus look at that outfit that's pretty crazy wow that's something else I you know it's a weird mix of confidence and a lack of confidence that you have yeah it's both uh youth is wasted on the young how do you feel about this one Oppenheimer now you know I'm sure you're aware that you're as far

as like Las Vegas goes as far as these websites that you think I'm calling Swifty on this I think you know probably that you're like the heavy favorite to win your category at the office the other thing that's come upon me and I think you're going to read this it's super sincere is I have a newfound humility look at it it's it's really G it's translating isn't it yes it is he is knows it you said uh before Oppenheimer came out you said you were going to go around to the IMAX theaters and and watch

the audience watch the movie did you ever do that that didn't happen it didn't happen really nope as a matter of fact it was because there was the strike and so even it could have seemed like I was promoting the film I see and I couldn't even go to a Premiere so in Sag Harbor New York I invited pretty much everyone who's in the Hamptons and for the first time in my whole career strangely everyone rsvpd and they showed up and I like there's Michael J fox or Spielberg and then I sit down and the

movie starts and I realize I'm sitting next to Paul McCartney and I was like dude Paul McCartney RSVP and he's sitting next to me and then I was just like smelling as cologne and I started like breathing in the same Rhythm as him I couldn't I I didn't even watch the movie because I think you can relate to this too like even just coming here today I was like wow the camel show has been back and the strikes were it's like this place is such energy and you run into people and I still find myself

getting Star Struck and fanboying out all the time because it's just incredible that we you're talking abouto I assume when you you came in and there was obviously I still think he's a liar I think you're on to something no well only the liar says he's not a liar G sorry but no we're going to take a break we're going to take a look at a clip from the movie you haven't seen it yet you should it's called Oppenheimer Robert Downey Jr is with us we'll be right back our b29 over the North Pacific has

detected radiation do we have the filter paper there's no doubt what this is White House says there's a do wishful thinking I'm afraid are those the long range detection filter papers it's an atomic test the Russians have a bomb we're supposed to be years ahead of them but so what were you guys doing at Los Alamos wasn't security tight that is Oppenheimer St Robert Downey Jr which is coming back to uh theaters and IMAX this month yeah nominated for best picture you're nominate oh will be nominated I'm jumping ahead of myself maybe don't jinx me

Jimmy I know as host of the show it's probably inappropriate for me to do that but I think it's safe to say well first of all your performance is excellent in the movie and secondly the movie itself is excellent your character is a real person deceased now Lou stoss is is is how you pronounce his I pronounce it wrong earlier he was a I have to tell you he reminds me a little bit in some ways not him personally but the idea that there would be backlash against Oppenheimer after yeah after he saved us from

the Nazis basically is is it seems it reminds me in a way of um the backlash like Dr fouchy has received in some ways that is that is not inaccurate at all but then again if you look at the heated nature of the times and there was people who just had acrimony towards each other because they had felt blown off in some way and one of the big hearts of the story in Oppenheimer is that there's this moment between him and Einstein between Oppenheimer and Einstein that straw wants to be part of because he's like

supporting them and at The Institute for advanced study and they just completely just disregard his existence and you see the seeds of discontent being born and there I was like what can I relate this to and I was like remember in the 80s when you go up to these velvet ropes at the clubs and no one really you hadn't really broken yet and you'd see Scott Bao just get out of a limousine and walk right by you be like Scott remember when he'd be like just doesn't even recognize you whenever you're like I will exact

my revenge on Scott B um I is that for real is that really something you thought about any and every time that any of us have felt like we we were on the outside looking in or that someone that been this slight or you'd been blown off or it's that weird thing like where you're you think someone's waving at you and you wave back and then you realize and you go oh my God this is so humiliating but this was at a national level and and Lis straw was head of the atomic energy commission and

there was reason for him to believe that Oppenheimer was a a little bit too left-leaning and shouldn't be trusted to have a security clearance but really he just wanted to destroy him and and Chris Nolan who we were talking about is just one of the great directors in the history of film he said it's like Amadeus this time you're not Mozart Killian's playing Mozart he's Oppenheimer you're sieri you're the other guy who's not as good as him you're Chachi yeah yeah or wait he's chachy one of you is he chachy I was just I was

a I was a guy who couldn't get in to watch them taping Charles and charge so with Christopher Nolan who you're right is just I mean his movies are fantastic and does he do you guys sit down and you go you figure out how you're going to approach the character together yeah as always there's there's a little uh requisite humility I was like Chris you've written a perfect script I think I can fix it and so we would shoot stuff and I'd be improvising and this one day just goes Robert your embellishments are um anyway

if you get scared out there just float gently back to the text I won't I won't judge you for it and I was like this guy just completely completely got my psyche in a place where I couldn't even be mad at him for telling me to just do less dude that is a beautiful way to put it for sure oh boy he got me good you've written a cookbook here which is not something I ever imagined that you would this is cool Foods this is exciting stuff you and uh Thomas pan and uh there's a

theme it's not just a cookbook it teaches you about the things you should eat so that we can stay on the planet yeah this is like this is like an ad open it to any page guide to how can I reduce my carbon footprint in a way that's just super simple by changing my habits in the way that I eat what's the best thing I know some of the worst things we can eat what's the best thing we can eat a well it it always comes down to if you can reduce animal protein a little

bit or or if you can put lentils into your burger patty that makes a big difference if you eat cashews they're better than all the other nuts um rice uh the the rice industry takes as much energy as the entire aviation industry it's better to lean into the more Ancient Grains strawberries are great apples are great mangoes are fantastic so sometimes during the course of the day I'll just be like it's easy to make choices between all these options we have and it winds up making a big difference this is a real scientist Tom Costigan

and the reason this book is going to sell is because I'm right there is you are yeah but this gu this guy is a Super Genius he's done a dozen bestsellers and it was this education for me but there's all these little factoid do you cook as well I can kind of cook but there's good recipes in there no Jimmy I don't cook I have a [Laughter] chef who's the lighter now sorry well uh you know what you're you're that's for sure it's called cool food uh it's a cookbook for people who don't cook yeah

I it's got stuff in it yeah yeah I'm I swear there are recipes in here that one could follow recipes there's little quick things you can do yes it's going to make a big difference look even the book is small it took less uh material to make the book I'm thinking this through did you know that you have to cut down 11 trees to make one cookbook I made that up but yeah well it's called cool food hey we're not going to be around long we might as well enjoy ourselves right great nice messaging and

Oppenheimer well worth uh your time returns to theaters and IMAX this month and is available on digital and 4K that's Robert Downey Jr everybody his book comes out January 23rd we'll be back with Iowa de