“I make no apologies for Tropic Thunder … Proud of it and the work everyone did on it,” Stiller tweeted.
“I make no apologies for Tropic Thunder. Don’t know who told you that. It’s always been a controversial movie since when we opened. Proud of it and the work everyone did on it,” Stiller, who both starred in and directed the film, tweeted.
The same Twitter user brought attention to a 2018 tweet from Stiller. The actor was responding to a tweet joking about boycotting “Tropic Thunder” after Shaun White, an Olympic gold medalist snowboarder, dressed as Simple Jack, a disabled character in the film, for Halloween. . “I stand by my apology, the movie, Shaun White, And the great people and work of the @SpecialOlympics.”Robert Downey Jr. in blackface in “Tropic Thunder.”The film’s release sparked 20 disability advocacy groups — including the Special Olympics — to speak out against the use of the word “retard.”
“I think that it’s never an excuse to do something that’s out of place and out of its time, but to me it blasted the cap on [the issue],” Downey Jr. said on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast in 2020. “I think having a moral psychology is job one. Sometimes, you just gotta go, ‘Yeah I effed up.’ In my defense, ‘Tropic Thunder’ is about how wrong [blackface] is, so I take exception.”
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