robert downey jr has revealed which movies he believes are the most important in his career and its probably not the titles you were expecting honestly the two most important films ive 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 disneys 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 then the second most important film was dolittle because dolittle was a twoandahalfyear wound of squandered opportunity he continued the 2020 movie which was a box office flop starred downey jr as the titular character but was also produced by his wife susan downey 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 after that point whats 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 werenext up for downey jr is oppenheimer in which he plays lewis strauss commissioner and then chairman of the atomic energy commission he stars alongside a stacked ensemble cast that includes cillian murphy emily blunt florence pugh matt damon kenneth branagh benny safdie and rami malek oppenheimer arrives on the big screen on july 21 in the meantime check out our guide to the rest of the years biggest upcoming movies