Stars step out for Tropic premiere
September 18th, 2008 Posted in World Showbiz News
Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr have greeted fans at the UK premiere of Tropic Thunder.
The film spoofs Hollywood and centres on a group of big-headed actors who sign up to star in an action film about the Vietnam War.
But the director drops them into a real danger zone, with only their fake weapons for protection.
Protests marred the film’s US release because of scenes which appear to mock the mentally disabled while Downey Jr plays a blacked-up actor.
Downey Jr said of the controversy in America: “If anybody knows what’s funny and can be wild without being ridiculous and offensive, it’s Ben.”
Tropic Thunder is released in the UK on Friday.
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