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"I'm sort of the Vince Lombardi mind, when you score a
touchdown, act like you've been there,” Brown told Reuters at
the Oscars nominees luncheon this month.
"I want to try and maintain some sense of composure and decorum
with the hopes that I'll get a chance to be invited back again,
right?” he added.
Brown’s best supporting actor nomination for his role as Cliff
in the film “American Fiction” follows his popular television
roles in the shows “This Is Us” and “American Crime Story: The
People v. O.J. Simpson.”
Clifford “Cliff” Ellison, the brother of the protagonist and
author Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, embraces his life as an openly
gay man after divorcing his wife and becoming estranged from his
children.
While Brown is excited to be in the Oscar race, his main focus
is savoring the experience of being one of this year's Oscar
nominees rather than winning the award.
"For a long time, you're on the outside looking in and you
wonder what everything is that goes into it, and now you get a
chance to be on the inside and you're like, 'Oh. This is what
it’s like,’” the 47-year-old actor said.
Brown cherishes the chance to learn about what goes on within
one of the most prestigious groups in Hollywood.
"It's not the Illuminati, for anybody that thinks you have to be
a part of the Illuminati to get a nomination. I don't know if
the Illuminati is real,” Brown said.
(Reporting by Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway; Editing by Mary
Milliken and Jonathan Oatis)
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