Robert Downey Jr. He named the two most important films of his recent career. The actor, best known for playing Tony Stark aka Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universesurprisingly he didn’t name his most famous role while highlighting the most “important” movies of his career over the past 25 years.
The most important movies for Robert Downey Jr.
Speaking to The New York Times, Downey Jr. said: “Honestly, the two most important movies I’ve done in the last 25 years are The Shaggy Dog, because that was the movie that made Disney trust me.”
In Shaggy Dog In 2006, a remake of the 1959 film, Downey Jr. starred alongside Tim Allen, Kristin Davis and danny glover. It was widely panned by critics, scoring 26 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and considered a box office flop at the time.
“Then the second biggest movie was Dolittle, because Dolittle was a two-and-a-half-year wound from a wasted opportunity”added the actor. “The stress it put on my lady as she rolled her sleeves up to her armpits to make it useful enough to take to market was shocking.”
Like Shaggy Dog, dolittle of 2020 was panned by critics and bombed at the box office. The film, however, altered Downey Jr.’s perspective on his future projects.
He added, “After that point, what is that sentence? Never let a good crisis go to waste. We had this reset of priorities and we made some changes to who our closest business advisors were.”
Downey Jr.’s wife susan downeyshe served as a co-producer on Dolittle, which was developed by the couple’s production company, Team Downey Productions.
The documentary “Mr.” and what is coming
Later in the interview, the actor names his Netflix documentary Mr. as “probably the most important thing I’ll ever do.” The film, directed by chris smithfollows the relationship between Downey Jr. and his father, Robert Downey Sr., who died at age 85 in 2021.
Next, Downey Jr. stars in oppenheimer of Christopher Nolanwhere he plays Lewis Strauss alongside cillian murphy in the lead role. The film hits theaters on July 20, 2023.
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