After his Iron Man ending in Avengers 4: Endgame, Robert Downey Jr. will soon be seen again in complex character roles. Upcoming projects with the star include Christopher Nolan’s atomic bomb epic Oppenheimer and master director Park Chan Wook’s thriller series The Sympathizer.
Now, in a new interview, Downey Jr. has looked back on his career and over his two most important films spoken. Surprisingly, Marvel isn’t one of them.
A massive fantasy flop was extremely instructive for Robert Downey Jr
Speaking to The New York Times, the star revealed that The Shaggy Dog and The Amazing Journey of Dr. Dolittle are the two most important films of his career. Yes, you read that right: an animated talking dog movie and a fantasy disaster that’s been showered with Golden Raspberry nominations.
The reasons given by the actor are correct. Released in 2006, Shaggy Dog was the first film Downey Jr. re-signed to a major studio like Disney after his public drug scandal became. The project, in which the Marvel star plays the villain, was in a sense the rebirth of the star even before Iron Man.
Dolittle, on the other hand, was a painful two-and-a-half year lesson for Downey Jr. The actor, who also produced the film himself with his wife, believed in a new, big franchise after the Marvel Universe in which he could possibly let off steam in the long term.
After his $175 million Dolittle film grossed just $251 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo, and with that flopped heavilyDowney Jr. quickly learned his lesson from the process.
When will Robert Downey Jr be back in cinemas?
Next, you can see the actor starring in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The film about the inventor of the atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer is on from July 20, 2023 in German cinemas.
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