Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder (2008, 82%)
In a case of life imitating art imitating life, Robert Downey Jr. got an Oscar nomination playing a actor desperate for awards attention. RDJ on playing the sheltered, blackfaced Kirk Lazarus: “I’d be in makeup for a couple hours and they’d be setting up some big shot or whatever. I’d go back to my trailer and I’d close the door and I would lock it. I’d just look at myself in the mirror and I would talk to myself as the character and I swear to God, it was one of the most therapeutic [moments]. I’d look at myself and just be like, “You beautiful, man.” And I would actually have this strange transcendent experience.”