Ben Stiller Stares Down Cancel Culture and Refuses to Bend on His Most Controversial Movie: ‘I Make No Apologies’
Hollywood actor and comedian Ben Stiller went out of his way this week to defy cancel culture. Someone made the false charge that he had apologized for making “Tropic Thunder,” a hilarious film he co-wrote, directed and…
Hollywood actor and comedian Ben Stiller went out of his way this week to defy Cancel Culture.
Someone made the false charge that he had apologized for making “Tropic Thunder,” a hilarious film he co-wrote, directed and starred in alongside a cast of megastars.
Stiller, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Cruise, Nick Nolte, Jack Black and others put on a show for 107 minutes that is pure Entertainment.
The flick dropped 15 years ago but is funnier than ever. It is a satire of the shallow ways of Hollywood that likely could never be made today.
Downey appears in the R-rated film as an Australian method actor who is starring in another film about the Vietnam War. He appears in almost every scene in blackface as the fictional Staff Sgt. Lincoln Osiris.
The job called for him to play multiple roles at once. In one memorable quote from the film, the star has to remind himself and others of his artistic undertaking. He declares, “I’m a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.”