I genuinely like and admire Robert Downey Jr. But, his voice and mannerisms did not seem like a person living in the 1940s. Maybe it was his accent. I know he was born in NYC but I kept hearing a California accent. Wasn't Lewis Strauss from West Virginia and Virginia? He did not need to do a full 1940s Mid-Atlantic accent like you might hear in Citizen Kane (1941). But, I just did not feel like I was watching a real person.
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The character was all wrong anyway.
He just played Downey acting for an oscar. It worked.
oscars=shit.
"...his voice and mannerisms did not seem like a person living in the 1940s. Maybe it was his accent. I know he was born in NYC but I kept hearing a California accent."
By the 1940s, California had been occupied by English-speaking people for more than a century. A "California accent" would have been commonplace by then.
He was right for the part and he was great, and he was not just acting for an Oscar. Downey is a great actor, and he's great in just about everything he does.
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