grossed nearly $200 million worldwide and picked up an Oscar nomination for supporting actor thanks to Robert Downey Jr. But ...

For the supporting role, Downey Jr. earned Oscar, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Over the years, ...

As explained by People , the 2008 satirical comedy film featured Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus, a White Australian method actor ...

Robert Downey Jr. starred in the 2008 satire as an Australian actor who uses blackface to portray an African-American soldier ...

I don’t even know if I would have ventured to do it, to tell you the truth. I’m being honest,” Stiller said of making the ...

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Ben Stiller has said Robert Downey Jr's role as Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder was "incredibly dicey", even at the time the ...

Robert Downey Jr.’s Tropic Thunder character is a big reason the film probably couldn’t get made today, according to director, co-writer and star Ben Stiller. “Obviously, in this environment ...

Ben Stiller is unsure if he would have made "Tropic Thunder" in today's Hollywood. The actor noted "edgier comedy" is harder to accomplish in "this environment." ...

podcast, Downey Jr. told the host that “the spirit that Stiller directed and cast and shot Tropic Thunder in was, essentially, as a railing against all of these tropes that are not right and had ...

Downey Jr. appeared in Blackface in the 2008 satirical comedy RGR Collection / Alamy Stock Ben Stiller in 'Tropic Thunder' in 2008 Robert Downey Jr.’s Tropic Thunder character is a big reason the film ...