Robert Downey Jr. claims to have experienced a fanboy moment with Beatles legend Paul McCartney, despite his widespread fame.
In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel Live, the actor described how he invited a group of people to see “Oppenheimer” at his Hamptons home in New York.
Ironman actor and Golden Globes winner said he couldn’t attend a premiere for the film or promote it due to the actor’s strike, which kicked off ahead of the blockbuster film’s July release.
Robert Downey Jr. said, “I invited everyone who was in the Hamptons, and for the first time in my whole career, strangely, everyone RSVP’d,”. Guests included iconic actor Michael J. Fox and director Stephen 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’d, and he’s sitting next to me,”.
“And then I was just like, smelling his cologne, and I started like, breathing in the same rhythm as him,” he added. “I didn’t even watch the movie.” He went on to say, “I still find myself getting starstruck and fanboying out all the time.”
Downey Jr. won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in “Oppenheimer,” the epic thriller about the eponymous physicist known as the “father of the atomic bomb.”