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The 2 Films Robert Downey Jr. Says Are His Most Important Will Shock You · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Robert Downey Junior has a career just about any actor
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Speaker 2: would envy, having been one of the few and far
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Speaker 2: between to navigate critically acclaimed Oscar nominated films with box
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Speaker 2: office blockbusters. But the two films of this century he
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Speaker 2: gives the most weight are ones you probably wouldn't expect.
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Speaker 2: The first revived his career after a public struggle with sobriety,
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Speaker 2: and the second gave him a lesson in humility. Tells
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Speaker 2: The New York Times, Honestly, the two most important films
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Speaker 2: I've done in the last twenty five years are The
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Speaker 2: Shaggy Dog, because that was the film that got Disney
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Speaker 2: saying they would ensure me. The second most important film
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Speaker 2: was Doolittle because Doolittle was a two and a half
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Speaker 2: year wound of squandered opportunity. That twenty twenty film was
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Speaker 2: expected to launch a big franchise and cost one hundred
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Speaker 2: and seventy five million to produce before failing at the
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Speaker 2: box office and made Robert re examine his priorities. His
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Speaker 2: latest film, Oppenheimer, is out July twenty first.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,