Robert Downey. Jr: 'The two most important films I’ve done in the last 25 years are ‘The Shaggy Dog,’ because that was the film that got Disney saying they would insure me...and ‘Doolittle,’ a two-and-a-half-year wound of squandered opportunity.”
When thinking of the most important movie in Robert Downey Jr.’s filmography over the last 25 years, one might naturally assume the answer is “Iron Man,” the 2008 superhero tentpole that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe and changed the blockbuster landscape in Hollywood. But that’s not the movie Downey Jr. himself would pick. In a new interview with, the Oscar nominee cited 2006’s “The Shaggy Dog” and 2020’s infamous “Dolittle” flop as his most important titles.
“The Shaggy Dog” stars Tim Allen as a district attorney who transforms into a Bearded Collie after getting bitten by a sacred dog. Downey Jr. plays the villainous doctor behind the transformation. The film is hardly memorable, but for Downey Jr. it marked the moment when a major studio like Disney would hire him after his career was still on the outs following an arrest in April 1996 for possession of heroin, cocaine and an unloaded gun.
“The stress it put on my missus as she rolled her sleeves up to her armpits to make it even serviceable enough to bring to market was shocking,” Downey Jr. recalled of the flop. “After that point — what’s that phrase? Never let a good crisis go to waste? — we had this reset of priorities and made some changes in who our closest business advisers were.”
“It’s a way for me to let myself know that just because this may be the most important thing that I ever commit to a data card on a camera, it doesn’t mean it isn’t [expletive] content to everyone else,” Downey Jr. said about using the “content” descriptor.
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