#WAR MOVIE STILLER DOWNEY JR SKIN#
The film’s release sparked 20 disability advocacy groups - including the Special Olympics - to speak out against the use of the word “retard.”ĭowney plays Kirk Lazarus, a Method actor who surgically darkens his skin to play a black soldier. ©DreamWorks Distribution/Courtesy Everett Collection wears blackface in “Tropic Thunder” © DreamWorks/courtesy Everett Collection In the action-comedy from 2008, Downey plays a white actor who darkens his skin to play a black man in a movie. “I stand by my apology, the movie, Shaun White, And the great people and work of the Robert Downey Jr. It was always meant to make fun of actors trying to do anything to win awards,” the tweet said. “Actually Tropic Thunder was boycotted 10 years ago when it came out, and I apologized then.
The actor was responding to a tweet joking about boycotting “Tropic Thunder” after Shaun White, an Olympic gold medalist snowboarder, dressed as Simple Jack, a disabled character in the film, for Halloween. The same Twitter user brought attention to a 2018 tweet from Stiller. The movie follows a group of actors who get lost in the jungle while shooting a war film and are left to fend for themselves as they face real danger with nothing but their acting skills. Proud of it and the work everyone did on it. It’s always been a controversial movie since when we opened. Proud of it and the work everyone did on it,” Stiller, who both starred in and directed the film, tweeted. It’s always been a controversial movie since … we opened. The actor responded that he’s “proud” of the action-comedy. I was DYING laughing when I first saw it back in the day and so was everyone else,” the user wrote. “It was and still is funny AF … Even funnier now with cancel culture the way it is. Stiller, 57, responded to a tweet that asked him to “please stop apologizing for doing this movie.” The 2008 film has drawn criticism for its portrayal of disability, as well as for the fact that Robert Downey Jr. Justin Long: ‘Dodgeball 2’ could happen if Ben Stiller ‘comes around’īen Stiller isn’t sorry about “Tropic Thunder.” Steve Martin and Ben Stiller roast each other in Super Bowl ad: ‘Nepo Baby’ Tracy Morgan & other A-Lister fans show the Knicks loveīill Maher gives ‘Cojones Awards’ to those who fought cancel culture: ‘Growing a pair’
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