With fan outcry persevering with after Margot Robbie didn’t obtain a Finest Actress Oscar nomination, Robert Downey Jr. argues that the Barbie star is not getting the credit score she deserves for the standard of her work within the movie, detailing one standout scene specifically.

The second got here throughout an hour-long chat RDJ had along with his fellow SAG Award nominees for Finest Actor, Sterling Ok. Brown and Willem Dafoe. Within the dialog, Downey Jr. gave props to Robbie, saying she’s not getting the credit score she deserves for her work within the movie.

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Specifically, he pointed to one of many movie’s most iconic scenes, and the one most agree cemented America Ferrera’s well-deserved Finest Supporting Actress nomination. However whereas Ferrera gave a firey and impassioned speech, all Robbie did was pay attention.

However that is what did it for Downey Jr. “I by no means tire of watching somebody simply pay attention on digital camera,” he instructed his fellow actors. “It by no means fails to impress and remind me how little it’s good to do to be efficient.”

“Simply the only model of expression, that is what the digital camera needs,” he continued. “The nearer the digital camera will get, the extra it needs it. Time and time once more, it is demonstrated that it’s tremendous efficient.”

Clearly, a robust speech goes to face out and get seen, however there’s something equally highly effective about these quiet moments, these moments of equally impassioned energetic listening. It is one thing that may very well be thought-about even more durable to tug off successfully.

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Downey Jr. had reward for each ladies within the scene. “America has this wonderful speech. And by the way in which she nails it! I am watching it and go, ‘Wow, that was a extremely robust one. That is like a one act play. The entire film hinges on it.’”

On the identical time, he discovered himself equally impressed along with her most outstanding scene accomplice, who did not say a phrase. “It is the cuts away to Robbie so actively listening that I notice Greta is absolutely on to one thing right here.”

He needed to give full reward to Robbie for promoting the scene as if she was listening to this impactful speech for the primary time … even after most likely having heard it delivered again and again all day lengthy.

Whereas Robbie isn’t up for a Finest Actress Oscar, she remains to be up for an award as a producer for the movie’s Finest Image nomination. Barbie scored eight whole Oscar nominations, with Gerwig touchdown one for Finest Tailored Screenplay alongside Noah Baumbach.

Amid weeks of outcry, Robbie does not appear practically as upset as most of the movie’s followers and even her colleagues are about her absence on the poll.

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“There is no solution to really feel unhappy when you understand you are this blessed,” she mentioned at a screening of the movie on Tuesday, per Deadline. “I simply suspect it is larger than us. It is larger than this film, it is larger than our trade.”

“We got down to do one thing that might shift tradition, have an effect on tradition, simply make some form of impression and it is already finished that, and a few, far more than we ever dreamed it could,” she continued. “And that’s actually the most important reward that might come out of all of this.”

She did, nonetheless, again the outcry over Gerwig getting snubbed, too. “Clearly I believe Greta ought to be nominated as a director as a result of what she did is a once-in-a-career, once-in-a-lifetime factor, what she pulled off, it truly is,” she argued.

Each Ferrera and fellow nominee Ryan Gosling, additionally spoke out in assist of their movie’s director, in addition to its lead.

“There isn’t any Ken with out Barbie, and there’s no ‘Barbie’ film with out Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the 2 folks most chargeable for this history-making, globally-celebrated movie,” mentioned Gosling in a press release acquired by CNN after the nominations.

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“No recognition could be doable for anybody on the movie with out their expertise, grit and genius,” he added. “To say that I’m disenchanted that they aren’t nominated of their respective classes could be an understatement.”

“What Margot achieved as an actress is actually unbelievable,” Ferrera instructed Selection, including, “One of many issues about Margot as an actress is how straightforward she makes all the pieces look.”

“Maybe folks acquired fooled into pondering that the work appears straightforward, however Margot is a magician as an actress in entrance of the display,” Ferrera continued, “and it was one of many honors of my profession to get to witness her pull off the wonderful efficiency she did. She brings a lot coronary heart and humor and depth and pleasure and enjoyable to the character. In my guide, she’s a grasp.”

The Finest Supporting Actress nominee additionally heaped reward on her director, noting, “Greta has finished nearly all the pieces {that a} director may do to deserve it. Creating this world, and taking one thing that did not have inherent worth to most individuals and making it a world phenomenon. It feels disappointing to not see her on that listing.”

The 96th Academy Awards air dwell on Sunday, March 10 at 7pm ET.