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Emily Garbutt

Robert Downey Jr. says Dolittle and The Shaggy Dog are his most important movies

Robert Downey Jr. in The Shaggy Dog and Dolittle

Robert Downey Jr. has revealed which movies he believes are the most important in his career – and it's probably not the titles you were expecting. 

"Honestly, 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," Downey Jr. said in a new interview with New York Times Magazine. Disney's 2006 family movie, about a district attorney who turns into a dog, was his first gig with a major Hollywood studio after being arrested a decade earlier for possession of heroin, cocaine, and an unloaded gun. 

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