Stiller, who also stars in Tropic Thunder, recruited Jack Black into the squad and there are supporting turns from Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaughey, Tobey Maguire, Jon Voight, Alicia Silverstone and a surprising cameo by an unrecognisable Tom Cruise. They think they are other actors and it's all part of the movie. The actors stumble into an area controlled by a drug syndicate, but are so self-absorbed they do not realise the heavily-armed traffickers who chopped off their director's - Brit funnyman Steve Coogan - head are the real deal. The story follows a group of pampered, self-obsessed actors, including Lazarus, as they attempt to shoot a war movie in a jungle in South-East Asia.
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Tropic Thunder is a spoof of Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill and other 1980s Hollywood films set during the Vietnam War. "Yeah, sure I was," the actor laughed during an interview at a West Hollywood hotel recently. The great challenge for Downey was he not only had to play ocker Lazarus, but also play Lazarus portraying an African American army sergeant, Lincoln Osiris. Stiller was targeting Downey to play the character Kirk Lazarus, a hardcore, Aussie method actor. It was for the action-comedy Tropic Thunder co-written and to be directed by Stiller. The role Stiller was offering Downey was an odd one. When Ben Stiller phoned him a year or so ago, Downey wondered if he had finally met his match. The 43-year-old actor has overcome plenty, whether it was his battle with drugs in the 1990s and early 2000s that landed him in jail, or roles few actors could pull off, such as his best actor Oscar-nominated performance in Chaplin. In his next one, this American actor is playing an Australian actor who is playing an American character - and an African-American character at that. In his last big movie - Iron Man - he played an industrial tycoon who wrapped himself in metal. Robert Downey Jr has become the master of the "layered" performance.
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