Robert Downey Jr. is giving us exactly what we've been missing since eighties hits like 'Soul Man': a white person in blackface! A description of the new film Tropic Thunder, directed by Ben Stiller:
In the film, which is a satire that takes aim at the egos of big Hollywood actors, Downey plays Kirk Lazarus, an Oscar caliber actor who ends up with a part that was originally written for a black man. Instead of recasting, Lazarus decides to dye his skin to play the character of Osiris, well, authentically
Oh yea. That's him in the middle of the picture. Wow.
Downey insists he hasn't gone too far, because he's not REALLY playing a black man by wearing blackface. He's playing a white man in blackface, which is, of course, muuuch better.
“At the end of the day, it’s always about how well you commit to the character,” he says. “I dove in with both feet. If I didn’t feel it was morally sound, or that it would be easily misinterpreted that I’m just C. Thomas Howell in [Soul Man], I would’ve stayed home.”
