Robert Downey Jr. Has a New Look

Robert Downey, Jr. is causing quite a stir with his newest role, in which he plays an Oscar-winning actor taking on a part originally written for a black actor — and rather than re-write the part, the character, well, decides to play it in blackface.

Robert tells Entertainment Weekly: ”If it’s done right, it could be the type of role you called Peter Sellers to do 35 years ago. If you don’t do it right, we’re going to hell.”

Or, even worse, go on to star in a different kind of hell: The Love Boat: The Next Wave, as Soul Man’s C. Thomas Howell did.

Tropic Thunder is a satirical “epic action comedy” written, directed and co-starring Ben Stiller. The movie also stars Jack Black, Nick Nolte, Tom Cruise (a cameo in a fat suit), Matthew McConaughey and Tobey Maguire.

Circus Hour sources say Stiller is also taking on a shocking character: a fastidious, slightly neurotic goody-two-shoes who is constantly misunderstood. What a stretch it will be!

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Published 3/7/08 by

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