Robert Downey Jr. is unrecognizable in The Sympathizer and the transformation was different from Oppenheimer: “They got their hands dirty”

After winning his first Oscar for Oppenheimer alongside Cillian Murphy and Christopher Nolan, Robert Downey Jr. is one of the stars of the miniseries The Sympathizer on HBO, where he appears unrecognizable as four different characters.

Robert Downey Jr. underwent an intense transformation for both Oppenheimer and The Sympathizer, but Susan Downey, the actor’s producer and wife, revealed to Cinemablend that the processes were totally different behind the scenes.

There was a choice. Robert, who just worked with Nolan, who really stayed away from Lewis Strauss prosthetics. This was Robert, he had lost a lot of weight to change his type of physicality, in fact he shaved his head. [Nolan] didn’t really use it. And then he felt there was a need for a light touch [com O Simpatizante]. However, the difference is that [Lewis] it was a real person that he really needed to dimensionalize. This was the Captain’s perception [narrador interpretado por Hoa Xuande]

In other words, Robert Downey Jr.’s transformation into Oppenheimer was with minimal prosthetics. In The Sympathizer, he was able to play more with the appearance of his characters, as it is a subjective story told from the narrator’s perspective.

“He knew there was more fun [em O Simpatizante]he says it was like a kind of coiled spring, having done so much restraint through Nolan’s process and through Oppenheimer, that he was ready to move forward with all of this.”explain…

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