Robert Downey Jr. last played a legendary Brit in Chaplin. This time he’s taking on a fictional hero as the title sleuth in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, serving up a contemporary twist on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliant detective, with Jude Law’s Watson along for the ride.

Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf found out why Downey wasn’t worried about reinventing Holmes as a kung-fu fighting crime stopper.

“We had to get over the fact that we were bringing to the screen, for the first time in quite a while, two much beloved figures. I think a lot of the flaming hoops that we had to jump through were how do you take what comes from a hugely popular story and twist it a bit. The most exciting part for me was…”

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