Phonte has come to the defense of Robert Downey Jr.’s blackface portrayal in Tropic Thunder in the wake of fresh criticism on Twitter. The actor’s role became a trending topic on Twitter after some users appear to have just discovered the film.
On Thursday (April 30), the Little Brother lyricist tweeted the movie was “fucking hilarious,” saying the satire wasn’t at black people’s expense but rather about “white actors thinking they could play any role.”
After a user responded calling Downey Jr. “the Teflon Don for pulling it off,” Phonte replied, saying the recovered drug addict “might have the greatest comeback story of all time.”
Phonte later posted a poll asking “who had the greatest return?” Answer choices included “The Mack” – in reference to the song by British R&B singer Mark Morrison – “Jesus” and “Robert Downey Jr.”
The Iron Man actor recently appeared on an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, where he discussed whether Tropic Thunder could be made in 2020. While reflecting on the role, Downey Jr. said “Sometimes, you just gotta go, ‘Yeah I effed up.'”
He continue by saying “in my defense, ‘Tropic Thunder’ is about how wrong [blackface] is, so I take exception.”
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Tropic Thunder was trending on Twitter after a user shared that his favorite tweet genre is “woke teenagers discovering Tropic Thunder,” following recent outcry about Downey Jr.’s controversial performance.
In 2009, Downey Jr. was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role of Kirk Lazarus in the film. His character is an Australian method actor who undergoes “pigmentation alteration” – skin-darkening surgery – to play the black character, Staff Sergeant Lincoln Osiris.
Tropic Thunder received the Critics Choice Movie Award for Best Comedy in 2009.
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I’m the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude!
No, you are jus a phagot in disguise.
Okay. Now I’m fully in support of ending quarantine early! That is if these trashy young women (if I can even call them any sort of men) are just gonna browse the new streaming services (that are probably eating up their bills more than cable would) for older movies to cancel without even watching them…
This just makes me hate people. If you have time to be offended you need to kill yourself
Cry me a river. Who TF cares. Your offended? Eat shit. Still offended? Chew harder!
Its an article about him not being offended you simp.
It was regarding the woke complainers you brainless tranny. Eat a dick before you reply
I am aware of the pigmentation procedure nowadays people just use like a cream substance to change their appearance. maybe there is more behind that though than just wanting to be different.
ya’ll sensitive ass niggas
this shit is over 10 years old. millenium f a gg ots think the can recreate history. everyone thought he was hilarious in that movie.
and yes i understand phonte was defending him.
Black ignorance at it again. The joke WAS the black face. His character in the movie wasn’t a bad actor, he was an excellent actor (in the movie). It also showed him getting deep into other characters because he was good at it. The joke wasn’t that he was a bad actor who thought he could play black face. That shit flew right over his nappy little head.
Holy fuck, you’re super racist and don’t understand the joke of tropic thunder.
The character was extremely funny for exactly the reason Phonte outlined.
I guess the ppl getting offended have not actually seen the movie.
I hope none of them find the movie “Soul Man.”
Shit was funny, period. RDJs comeback is underrated too, I thought for sure he was gonna die in the 90s…
The Mack is an Iconic movie. You jumped to a wrong conclusion about the mack song… jeez.
The movie has nothing to do with what Phonte tweeted. Guess who’s jumping to conclusions lol.
Never go full retard homie…
1. Go to Robert Downey Jr Wikipedia article 2. Read first part of ‘Early life and family’ (..Downey’s father is of half Lithuanian Je..)