Race row as actor Robert Downey Jr 'blacks up' for new film

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=528496&in_page_id=1773 ^ | 17:38pm on 7th March 2008

[Pylon]

It’s actually a comedy, on IMDB.com it says

“Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying”

[Behind Liberal Lines]

As near as I can tell, the film is a comedy and the bit with Downey is actually a satire of "method actors" who go to extremes to play characters that they look nothing like.

[Southerngl]

I have seen White Chicks at least 50 times. I don’t recall any major backlash. And it isn’t done in a parody way, but it is really amazing the make up!

[Southerngl]

Hey, I am just glad RDJr managed to make it through a movie without being arrested and/or crashing in a little girls bed.

[Rastus]

It actually makes a little bit of sense in context. The movie is apparently about a trio of demanding actors who are dropped into a real war zone when their producers get fed up with them. They think it’s just a movie. So, I wouldn’t expect them to even look like they know what they’re doing.

[Callahan]

Hillary Clinton dons black make up and a fat suit in a desperate attempt to appeal to portly minority super-delegates:

[Levante]

Good “point.” (no pun intended - :)

Thanks for the info!

[Callahan]

Ben Stiller is in way better shape than I would have guessed. Successful Hollywood actors have lots of time for gyms and personal trainers. Even the comedians.

[Brad from Tennessee]

It’s a comedy. From what I can gather, the movie is about a group of actors and a production company who go to some Third World country to film a war movie and then a real war breaks out and they have to fight for their lives. Downey’s role as a black person is part of the plot.

[squidly]

Isn’t the plot premise about a white guy who had to put on blackface in order to get hired? I’d think this would negate the racism angle. But nobody cares about that.

[kenavi]

It’s the backlash by dumb blondes that will kill it.

[Hardastarboard]

Jack Black

Along with Queen Latifah and Will Farrell, is one of the most over-rated "actors" in Hollywood.

[PJ-Comix]

Why are three old guys wandering around with guns? Why is the guy with the shotgun not on point? Why am I going to make it a point to miss this movie?

Hello? Hello? Hello! This is a COMEDY! Or did you think that Zoolander was a serious look at the world of male modeling?

[Ezekiel]

It’s actually a comedy...

Well ain't that a relief! lol

Is there a Tootsie/Silver Streak angle also? RD Jr. can't get any rolls as a white guy and everyone knows he's a pita, so he does like George Caldwell and plasters on the shoe polish?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Will Farrell overrated? Get real. He’s a talented actor/comedian.

[Tanniker Smith]

Sure, everyone wants to get on Downey's case now when he isn't inside his flying suit of armor.

Of course, Downey's best work was in "Betty Ford: the Musical"
"Check it out! I'm checkin' in!!"

[Tanniker Smith]

It’s a comedy.

How's that possible??? It's got Ben Stiller in it.

[usmcobra]

I know that black guy.....

[Calvin Locke]

Go back a about a decade earlier to Watermelon Man.

Godfrey Cambridge played a white guy in the first act.

Then he thinks he's having a dream about a great sunlamp.