What do you make of this news? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below. And I thought, ‘Yeah, I’ll do that, and I’ll do that after “Iron Man.”’ Then I started thinking, ‘This is a terrible idea, wait a minute,’” he revealed at the time. “When Ben called and said, ‘Hey, I’m doing this thing’ – you know, I think Sean Penn had passed on it or something. Sometimes, you just gotta go, ‘Yeah, I effed up.’ In my defense, Tropic Thunder is about how wrong is, so I take exception.ĭespite the self-aware script and Downey’s decision to seek approval from the NAACP before the film’s release, he was hesitant to take the role - which scored him an Oscar nomination in 2009. I think having a moral psychology is Job 1. I think that it’s never an excuse to do something that’s out of place and out of its time, but to me it blasted the cap on. Here’s what he had to say on the matter during an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience: That said, Downey Jr. defended the use of blackface in 2020, saying he believed it had a purpose in this case. However, when the film was released, it sparked 20 disability advocacy groups - including the Special Olympics - to speak out against the use of the word “retard” in the movie.
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I stand by my apology, the movie, Shaun White, And the great people and work of the Robert Downey Jr has also defended the movie Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying. It was always meant to make fun of actors trying to do anything to win awards. Here’s what Stiller had to say on the matter:Īctually, Tropic Thunder was boycotted 10 years ago when it came out, and I apologized then. In that tweet, Stiller was responding to a tweet joking about boycotting Tropic Thunder after Olympic gold medalist snowboarder, Shaun White dressed as Simple Jack 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 … we opened. The actor then 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. So, recently Stiller responded to a tweet that asked him to “please stop apologizing for doing this movie.”
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