‘Tropic Thunder’ star, director and co-writer Ben Stiller said he will ‘make no apologies’ for the film after a fan said people were trying to ‘cancel’ it.
The universe is talking to us right now … in the form of a very direct tweet from Ben Stiller, who won’t be apologizing for one of his most infamous movies.
The writer-director said this week that he doesn’t regret his 2008 satire “Tropic Thunder,” the controversial action-comedy about a hapless band of actors who try to shoot a movie in a war zone and end up fighting in the melee. The film famously saw Robert Downey Jr. don blackface to play a quirky Australian Method actor seeking awards acclaim and who has a “pigmentation alteration” procedure to play his part as a Black soldier in the movie within the movie. (“I am playing a role within a role within a role so I know who I am,” Downey’s Kirk Lazarus explains.)
“Zoolander” and “Meet the Parents” star Stiller made his latest remarks in response to a tweet from a fan who asked him to stop apologizing for the blockbuster Hollywood spoof.
“Please stop apologizing for doing this movie. It was and still is funny AF… Even funnier now with cancel culture the way it is. It’s a MOVIE. Ya’ll can just get over it. I was DYING laughing when I first saw it back in the day and so was everyone else,” the fan wrote, sharing a screenshot of a rant about liberals trying to get the film canceled.
