Twelve years after his controversial role in Ben Stiller's "Tropic Thunder," Robert Downey Jr. is still fielding questions about taking on the part. In the 2008 comedy, Downey plays an Australian ...

Robert Downey Jr. has continued to defend the controversial 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder, in which he played a method actor wearing Blackface for a role. Speaking to Rob Lowe on his podcast ...

Robert Downey Jr. has long defended his role in “Tropic Thunder,” the 2008 comedy from director Ben Stiller that cast the “Iron Man” star as an egotistical Australian thespian who takes ...

Robert Downey Jr. famously wore blackface in the 2012 movie “Tropic Thunder,” where he played an Australian actor who darkens his skin in order to play a black soldier in a war film.

Robert Downey Jr. has donned a number of disguises in his more than 30 years in show business and famously decked himself out in blackface during his 2008 film “Tropic Thunder.” ...

Tropic Thunder doesn’t exactly stand up to the harsh light of 2020 (or 2008, for that matter), but star Robert Downey Jr. is still defending the controversial comedy.

Robert Downey Jr. played a Method actor in Ben Stiller’s comedy “Tropic Thunder” and things got meta on set. In a new GQ video interview, Downey’s co-star Danny McBride remembered ...

Robert Downey Jr. is reflecting on Tropic Thunder and the controversy the 2008 film inspired. The actor appeared on an episode of the podcast Literally!With Rob Lowe, and when talking about Tropic ...

Robert Downey Jr. has defended the ‘blackface’ that his character uses in the 2008 film Tropic Thunder, saying it “railed against tropes that were not right”. READ MORE: ‘Oppenheimer ...

Robert Downey Jr. has long defended his role in “Tropic Thunder,” the 2008 comedy from director Ben Stiller that cast the “Iron Man” star as an egotistical Australian thespian who takes ...

It was a great year for Downey, with "Iron Man" being a gigantic box office hit and all the plaudits he earned for his off-the-wall take in "Thunder." Last year's turn in David Fincher's "Zodiac ...