Downey to Portray Black Man in Summer Comedy Film
LOS ANGELES In “Tropic Thunder,” one of three summer films having Robert Downey Jr., the histrion appears on screen as a black man.
Downey Jr. plays to a fault committed histrion Kirk Lazarus, a white man cast to act a black soldier in the irony of filmmaking. The flick also stars Jack Black and Ben Stiller, who co-wrote, directed and brought forth it.
“If it’s through with right, it could be the eccentric of function you named Peter Sellers to do 35 age ago,” Downey said Entertainment Weekly mag. “If you don’t do it right, we’re locomoting to inferno.”
Stiller stated he was “nerve to force it as far as you can inside reality,” with the intent of lampooning over-the-top thespians, not African-Americans.
“I held no thought how citizenry would react to it,” Inactive told the mag. But at a recent showing, black TV audience liked the motion, he expressed.
Downeyexplained that he unbroken the fictitious character from comely an imitation because he “peacenik in with both feet.”
Predominant is placed to let go “Tropic Thunder” Aug. 15.