SAG Awards: Robert Downey Jr celebrates wife in speech
Robert Downey Jr. paid tribute to his "sane and rational" wife as he picked up the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role accolade at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Saturday (24.02.24).
Robert Downey Jr. paid tribute to his "sane and rational" wife as he picked up the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role accolade at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Saturday (24.02.24).
The 58-year-old actor - who won the prize for 'Oppenheimer' ahead of Sterling K. Brown ('American Fiction'), Willem Dafoe ('Poor Things'), Robert De Niro ('Killers of the Flower Moon') and Ryan Gosling ('Barbie') - joked he never gets "tired of the sound of [his] own voice" as he took to the stage at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, before praising producer Susan Downey for giving as "flawless" a performance as his spouse as many of his celebrated co-stars over the years.
He said: "Oh boy, hi, thanks. SAG-AFTRA thank you very much. Blimey. Why now? Why do things seem to be going my way?
"Unlike my fellow nominees, I will never grow tired of the sound of my own voice?"
He then named a string of past co-stars as he said: "James Spader, Anthony Michael Hall, Mel Gibson, Whoopi Goldberg, Woody Harrelson, Holly Hunter, Kenneth Branagh, Jodie Foster, Annette Bening, Val Kilmer, Jamie Foxx... Susan Downey.
"Now why have I added my wife's name to this list of otherwise super talented artists I've learned so much from up close? It's because for 22 years she has flawlessly portrayed a sane and rational individual who is happily married to an actor.
