Despite the fact that the movie is supposedly making fun of the idea of blackface, at the same time, it is still doing it. Lazarus is so “focused” and “committed” to the role that he blindly dives headfirst into blackface. He deepens his voice as well to play Osiris, but it is a naïve, misunderstood, offensive, yet almost innocent to the point of gross stupidity, performance. Lazarus is such a serious actor that to portray the black soldier Lincoln Osiris he undergoes a skin alteration to change his own skin color black. Most likely just for kicks, he decided to star alongside Ben Stiller in Tropic Thunder as the Australian method actor and five-time Oscar winner Kirk Lazarus. He was already a marquee actor from his Oscar nomination sixteen years earlier for Chaplin (1992). He was regaining his celebrity after recovering from years of addiction abuse. 2008 is the same year Downey starred in the first Iron Man. A fair example of how Tropic Thunder's once-praised satire has not exactly aged well is Robert Downey Jr.’s character.
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