Could You Make Tropic Thunder Today? w/Robert Downey Jr. | Joe Rogan

the Joe Rogan experience do you think that you could do Tropic Thunder today would that be possible oh you could do it and again like Eddie you know I look back to me that movie to me was a circle back to my dad's movie called Putney Swope which I highly recommend anyone who hasn't seen to see about a black guy who takes over an ad agency in the 60s because everyone votes for him when the head of the company dies because they think no one else will and it's about what happens when someone who is free-spirited takes over and essentially corrupt endeavor and then he realizes and confronts his own corruption but I remember I was probably two or three when that was being shot and when it came out and it was so a part of my upbringing and I just remembered some of the the folks that were around my dad at that time and so when Ben called and said hey I'm doing this thing and you know I think maybe Sean Penn had passed on possibly wisely and I thought yeah I'll do that and I'll do that after iron man then I started thinking assistants wait a minute and then I thought well hold on dude get real here where is your heart and my heart is a I get to I get to be black for a summer so there's something in it for me the other thing is I get to hold up to nature the insane self-involved hypocrisy of artists and what they think they're allowed to do on occasion just my opinion and also Ben who is a masterful artist and director probably the closest thing to a Charlie Chaplin that I've experienced in my hell the time he writes he directs he acts he if you had seen him when he was directing this movie he would have been like I'm watching David Lean I'm watching Chaplin I'm watching Coppola he he knew exactly what the vision for this was he executed it it was impossible to not have it be an offensive nightmare of a movie and 90% of my black friends are like dude that was great you know I can't disagree with them but I know where my heart was yeah and I think that it's never an excuse to do something that is out of place and not of its time but to me it was just putting a it was a blasting cap on and by the way I think white chicks came out pretty soon after that I was like I love that I was like that was great so you know well it might be the last time we see that unless things change it seems like no one can really I don't think you could do blackface anymore I mean we almost lost the Prime Minister of Canada because he did brown face yeah pretended to be Saudi Arabian right you did Arabian Nights in high school or something like that it's it's an interesting and necessary meditation on where is the pendulum why is the pendulum right yeah where is the pendulum maybe cutting a little into what could be perceived as as heart in the right place openness of its time but again I mean you know there's a morality clause here on this planet and it's a big price to pay and I think having a moral psychology is is job one so sometimes you just got to go yeah you know I effed up again not in my defense but Tropic Thunder was about how wrong that is yes so I take exception but no it's I think you could do it today I think you could I think it could be done today there would be so much outrage but there would also be people cheering and if you if we got we boiled down all the [ __ ] and got to the actual result of what the film did it's [ __ ] hilarious to this day I watched it again about a year and a half ago it's a great movie it's a great fun movie I mean it's it's ridiculous over-the-top hilarious and it worked and and your portrayal I mean it wasn't it wasn't egregious it wasn't there was it was necessary it made sense all of it fit it all the square pegs and square holes I was just thinking squared I don't know why I was thinking oh it was thinking about Sarah Jessica Parker on the ride over there that crazy I think I drove by at that Warner Park near here yeah yeah I think she went to school over there when she was doing a show anyway interesting yeah it it worked and but it was it might be the last time we'll ever see a studio take a chance on a guy wearing blackface and the the prolific use of the word [ __ ] those are two things and by the way that's or a Ben but the funny thing too was all the heat got deflected to Ben and simple Jack yeah that's what people were pissed off about and I go oh great but you never know when it's gonna be your time in the barrel you know sometimes sometimes life just says you know what and and I've been on both sides of that coin sometimes life just says you're a symbol now did you have anybody that was telling you not to do it with their abundance or anyone else my mother was horrified really Bobby I'm telling you I have it bad feeling I was like yeah me too mom but uh anyway how are we our net first is that would they put the makeup on you how are you sweating there's been a couple times I was all the night before and we were on kawaii and I was like oh here we go and I was just running I think I had six lines that day but I knew that there was going to be choppers that was going to be a squib fire there was going to be choreography that was going to be you know it was gonna be a cacophonous and the only thing that mattered to me again what's my action my action is an actor in this movies to know what I'm doing even if what I'm doing is so I ran those six or eight lines I had a thousand times lying in bed over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again so the next day I was free to enjoy myself and not be struggling to wonder what it was I was supposed to be doing and then that's what it is it was just you know it was one little mosaic after the next and and by the end of it I had some pride that a I had made it through forget that it was you know the black face it was special-effects makeup day after day after day after day after day after day after day except for the times when I would have my bleached hair and blue contacts in my eyes or you know other characters and it was just a it was a piece of work that I was doing and I cared about doing it as professionally and as honestly as I could so when you memorize lines that's an interesting thing you said that you were free to to do it like when you memorize lines is there ever a part like when you're acting where you have to think like okay what am I supposed to say next and how much does that get in the way this I look I have a very broad band of of tolerances I don't care if the people I'm with happen to not know what they're doing or don't know their lines are stepping on my lines or or whatever or want to change their lines and my lines and it's always a different thing it's like reading the room it's like you know if I was a fighter you go into the Octagon and there they go you ready you ready and you go and then you just do it you go in but so I've had it where I would try to be off-book before everyone else I would get it down to an acronym so if there was a thousand words I had to remember I would just remember the first letter of each and I would put it on a piece of poster board and then I would stand away from it not as far as you and your your archery set up over there but far enough away to where I can see it but kind of can't see it back when my vision was a little more clear and I would just run it and run it and run it when I did the first Sherlock we were rewriting it so much you know to have pages and pages of stuff I was it give me an earwig and it helped me with my accent and then I started getting into like you know what's so great I can finish work go home hang out with my kids or do whatever I want to do go train and in the morning they can change it all they want I don't have to trip if at all if you know unless it's some monologue that you want to really be committed to that's not going to shift I'm just go like that so you put one of those little ear pieces in they would feed you the Lions yeah and now I've kind of gone as far as you can go with that and I'll probably go back to a new method or a new version of the old method so it's basically improvisational like you in in the moment like you decide with whatever preparation going to do for each role how you gonna do it whether you're gonna go and memorize everything obsessively or whether you're just gonna be a little bit more loose and free with it yes it depends on the script too like Tropic Thunder Justin Theroux wrote that script with with Ben it's a really good script I mean my mrs. who next to my mother was you know with I'm probably more so is the opinion I was really waiting on and she was reading in the kitchen laughing her ass off she goes this is so wrong this is so wrong and she goes and it's so true now if you do this right you're you're doing something that's it's about a bunch of self-involved idiots somehow or other becoming heroes and she goes I love that if that's what it stays and it's gonna be good and so like for instance the you know never go yeah full no by the way I guarantee you I'm getting out of here my stock is not plummeting when I leave here I'm not smoking dope I'm not doing a musk I'm gonna do everything right stock went up the next day all right drop six went up nine buses hurt yeah it just changes [Applause]

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