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Poor Bradley Cooper! Unstable star Rob Lowe revealed during a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live that he mistakenly texted Cooper a congratulatory message after the Golden Globes that he meant to send to Robert Downey Jr.
The worst part? Cooper was nominated for a Golden Globe award that evening for Maestro, but he lost to Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy.
“Downey does this amazing acceptance speech at the Golden Globes, and I’m so excited for him so I text him, ‘So glad you won. That is the most beautiful acceptance speech I’ve heard in a long time. Boy, do you deserve it,’” Lowe recalled, per Variety. “I hit it and I realize, ‘Oh shit. I just sent that to Bradley Cooper.’”
He explained that he immediately followed up with another text to clear up the confusion.
“I said, ‘No, no, I meant that for Robert Downey Jr,’” Lowe said. “Now that’s even worse! I made the guy feel worse! It was terrible.”
Downey took home the first Golden Globe of his career that evening for his performance in Oppenheimer.
The Marvel star recently appeared on an episode of Lowe’s podcast Literally, where they discussed his career working on blockbuster films. Downey specifically defended the controversial role he played in the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder, in which he played a method actor who wears blackface for a role.
The actor maintained that the satirical film was meant to criticize “all of these tropes that are not right and [that] had been perpetuated for too long” in Hollywood.
He compared the film to Norman Lear‘s 1970s sitcom All in the Family, which included a disclaimer noting that the show “seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices, and concerns… to show — in a mature fashion — just how absurd they are.”
“The language was saying, ‘Hey, this is the reason that we’re doing these things that, in a vacuum, you could pick apart and say are wrong and bad,’” Downey said on the podcast.
He continued, “There used to be an understanding with an audience, and I’m not saying that the audience is no longer understanding — I’m saying that things have gotten very muddied.”
