OlderRobert Downey Jr. is a Black Man
Thu, 06 March 2008 at 8:29 pm
Robert Downey Jr. plays a black man in the new movie Tropic Thunder.
Downey, 42, plays overly committed actor Kirk Lazarus, a white man cast to play a black soldier in a satire of the performing profession.
“If it’s done right, it could be the type of role you called Peter Sellers to do 35 years ago,” Downey told Entertainment Weekly. “If you don’t do it right, we’re going to hell.”
Tropic Thunder hits theaters on August 15th.
DO YOU THINK this movie will be PRETTY FUNNY or WILDLY OFFENSIVE?
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first for the 10th time baybay!!!
…for real??
PRETTY FUNNY
woah, that is actually suprisingly convincing. I thought it was actually a black man.
I thought it was a black man too before realizing who it was
Wow, he looks really impressively like a black man.
that’s the best black face i’ve ever seen! dude looks like my uncle charles (shout out to charles, he’s doing a lil 5year bid upstate).
i’m so offended right now, but i cant stop laughing my ass off! (lmao) lmaooo
No one was offended when the Wayans brothers played White Hilton sisters in their movie.
holy **** that looks NOTHING like downey jr
Wow! He’s so real!
yeah..that picture totally got me too! It depends on what he is playing! If it is something to fight for some rights..then I am all for it! BUT I am wondering..why make him black..when there are so many black actors to choose from..out here..unless it is a comedy!
I don’t see how it’s offensive. Plus the plot seems pretty funny.
If it’s done right, it could be the type of role you called Peter Sellers to do 35 years ago,” Downey told Entertainment Weekly. “If you don’t do it right, we’re going to hell.”
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Ya got that right.
i dont see why they couldn’t just get an african american actor to play that part i never really see a black playing and white person
he looks pretty cute as and african american
15 i so agree…WTF
This movie sounds like its gonna be FUNNY!
The movie is not about a black man…it’s a satire about actors. They’re making a war movie and the crew gets sick of them and abandons them. Robert Downey Jr. plays an actor who gets a role originally written for a black man and he’s such a dull-witted actor that he thinks it’s a profound choice to actually play it as a black man. The whole point is that it has to be a white man playing a black man. It’s about the insensitivity etc.
#15. Robert Downey Jr. plays a WHITE ACTOR cast to play a BLACK SOLDIER in a movie based on a true story.
And didn’t you ever hear of WHITE CHICKS or any Eddie Murphy movie?
why is this offensive?
I’m Black and I don’t find it offensive at all…I love RDJr and I thought that was a Black guy at first.
First of all that’s a pretty convincing black man there, I predict an OSCAR for the Make-up department. Secondly speaking as a black person I do not see anything wrong with this. That’s why it’s called ACTING as far as I’m concerned. So long as it’s not malicious and dissing black people.
For godssake we might as well stop actors wearing FAT SUITS, WIGS, AGING makeup, playing DISABLED PEOPLE, BLIND PEOPLE and so forth. Then what will we be left with? Actors might as well play themselves and their real lives!!!!!!
Wake up people, to hola ya’ll and me100, that’s like saying Jamie Foxx should not have played Ray Charles because he’s not blind!!! “Oh why don’t you find a blind actor to play that part because Ray was blind?” Com’on now be reasonable.
If black people also want to play white people in films I say go right ahead, I’m sure they can sort that out in makeup as they did in WHITE CHICKS!
why tell us.. could they not keep it a surprise???
Oh and please Jared can you block these people like #9 jyoueld with their fcuking stupid adverts:>( Thank you.
After the Wayans brothers “White Chicks” it’s all fair game!
He looks amazingly authentic as a black man.
I see nothing offensive about this, it appears to be more a tribute, rather than a minstrel show type farce
i think its pretty cool you really cant recognize him either
I don’t understand.
why didn’t they just get a black guy to play a BLACK GUY?
woow he really does look like an african american. good job make-up department
I’m not black and I find it offensive; are there not any talented enough black actors out in the world that they feel the need to hire a white guy to do a black guy?
They are infering that there are no good enough black actors to play a black person. What is the significance of hiring a white guy to play a black part? what are they trying to prove? I bet its to get more plublicity.
it’s offensive because of the derogative minstrel shows in which white men in black face portrayed blacks as lazy, stupid, shuckin’ and jivin’ happy negroes. the reference to the wayans playing white women is irrelevant because blacks donning white face does not have the same racial history that blackface does, whereby the images produced in minstrel shows were used to legitimize concepts of racial inferiority and black’s continued subordination in American society
Come on people… get over it. On the inside we are all the same. hiding behind your colour is a really bad excuse. This whole black and white thing really piss#s me off.
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