Everything about Lazarus changes, including his. started having second thoughts, but those concerns were eventually erased by some logic that's problematic to say the least. plays Kirk Lazarus, a white actor who undergoes genetic treatment to literally change his genes and become Black. And I thought, 'Yeah, I'll do that and I'll do that after Iron Man.'"Īfter being all in on the role, Downey Jr. "'Bobby, I'm telling ya, I have a bad feeling about this.' I was like, 'Yeah me too, Mom.' When Ben called and said, 'Hey I'm doing this thing' – you know I think Sean Penn had passed on it or something. The concept alone should give anyone pause, and Downey Jr. recalls his mother being no different. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr. In the 2008 Ben Stiller-directed comedy, Downey Jr. plays an Australian-born actor named Kirk Lazarus who becomes so method that he undergoes "pigmentation alteration" to portray a black character. Since it revolves around the making of a Vietnam War movie, it should come as no surprise that Tropic Thunder is filled with references to classic Vietnam War movies.One such Vietnam War-set classic is Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter. Our countdown includes Kirk Lazarus Method Acting, Jeff Portnoys Faux Trailer, Simple Jack, and more Script Written by Andrew Tejada. Tropic Thunder is a 2008 satirical action comedy film directed by Ben Stiller, who wrote the screenplay with Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen. Fresh off the news that his latest $175 million budget film Doolittle is projected to lose $100 million at the box office, Robert Downey Jr. stopped by The Joe Rogan Experience podcast and talked about donning blackface in Tropic Thunder.
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