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DOWNEY'S BLACK MAN GIVEN THUMBS UP: Real African American co-star in 'Tropic Thunder' gives critique of actor's fake black role.
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*Black actor Brandon T. Jackson is giving his "Tropic Thunder" co-star Robert Downey Jr. praise for his role as an Academy Award-winning white film star who dons makeup to take on a character written for an African American actor.
"To be honest, he played a black dude better than anybody I've seen!" Jackson told People.com about Downey's performance in the Ben Stiller-directed film.
But, Jackson admitted to having some initial reservations about Downey's character.
"When I first read the script, I was like: What? Black face? But when I saw him [act] he, like, became a black man," Jackson says.
In the film, Downey, 43, plays Kirk Lazarus, an Oscar winner who is cast in the most expensive Vietnam war film ever. But Lazarus's character, Sgt. Osiris, was originally written as an African-American. Lazarus decides to dye his skin to play the role.
"It was just good acting," Jackson says. "It was weird on the set because he would keep going with the character. He's a method actor."
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