Brandon T. Jackson is one of the stars of the upcoming Ben Stiller comedy Tropic Thunder, which is getting a lot of buzz primarily on the strength of newly minted super-duperstar Robert Downey Jr.'s hysterical parody of the far-too-self-important actor by actually having medical procedures done to play a black man in a new Vietnam War movie. Jackson plays Downey's major foil, and he had a few words to say about the experience.
Robert Downey Jr. played a black man better than I played a black man. That should tell you that Robert is an amazing actor. His career has been up, it's been down, it's been left, it's been right. To see him be a superhero [in Iron Man]... he's a superhero himself.
I actually play a version of Diddy, a big hip-hop mogul. I don't want to give too much away. We both have this big conflict of him playing black and I'm really black in the movie. It's crazy, it plays so real, so funny and so amazing. It's one of those things that you gotta go see. I think it's going to be one of the biggest comedies of the summer, as I knock on wood. Jack [Black] is amazing, Ben is an amazing director. I think people don't understand that Ben Stiller is the comedy Spielberg. That's my opinion.Watch the hilarious trailer for Tropic Thunder, starring Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Brandon Jackson, Steve Coogan and Nick Nolte.
