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Sterling K. Brown and Robert Downey Jr.
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Sterling K. Brown said he doesn’t expect to take home an Oscar this year, but he’s “totally fine” with it.
The actor, who is up for the best supporting actor award for his role in American fictionhe recently joked during an appearance on Sho Graham Nortonw, “There is no loss yet; it will happen in due time.”
Brown proceeded to say that “Colman (Domingo) will probably win,” adding, “I know I’m not going to win.” Domingo was also a guest on the BBC show and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Leading Actor for Rustin.
Although Graham Norton and the other guests responded and told Brown that he still has a good chance of winning, the We are The actor admitted that he’s “totally fine” if he doesn’t take home the trophy.
“Robert Downey Jr. is going to win and he deserves it incredibly,” Brown said of the oppenheimer star and his fellow nominee. “He is an incredible actor. You should give him love. And the fact that I have the opportunity to be nominated alongside him and Mr. (Robert) De Niro and Ryan Gosling and (Mark) Ruffalo, I’m happy to be in the room.”
Norton continued to tease Brown about his outlook should he end up winning the Academy Award. “Tonight this will all be very humbling,” the host joked. “’I can’t believe I won!’”
brown said The Hollywood Reporter Last month he thought the Cord Jefferson-directed film, adapted from Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure“It was one of the best scripts I had ever read.”
“He was able to make fun of an industry and also challenge it to say that there are ways it could be improved,” he said of American fiction. “You are narrow-minded in terms of the black life you are willing to portray for mass consumption. “I’m going to tell you that and at the same time I’m going to give you an idea of other stories that would be viable for mass consumption.”
