HOLLYWOOD, March 8 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr. says he knew donning makeup to look like a black man for his new film "Tropic Thunder" meant risking a public uproar.
"Iron Thunder" is a movie about a movie -- described as the story of a group of actors making a war movie who become involved in actual hostilities. Downey plays one of the actors -- a white man cast in a role written specifically for a black actor, who decides to play the war-movie character as a black actor.