Robert Downey Jr. Stands By ‘Tropic Thunder’ for ‘Railing Against Tropes That Aren’t Right’: ‘Things Have Gotten Very Muddied’ With Audiences

Robert Downey Jr. has long defended his role in “Tropic Thunder,” the 2008 comedy from director Ben Stiller that cast the “Iron Man” star as an egotistical Australian thespian who takes Method acting to an extreme by undergoing “pigmentation alteration” surgery to darken his skin in order to play a Black solider in a war […]
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