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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,