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IT’S Robert Downey Jr. as you’ve never seen him before. In the Ben Stiller-directed satire “Tropic Thunder,” due out this August, Downey appears in blackface. He plays a method actor named Kirk Lazarus, a seven-time Oscar winner whose latest role was originally meant for a black actor. “In his eternal struggle to push the boundaries he has his skin dyed black,” a source explained. Downey appears in a scene with Stiller and Jack Black. Tom Cruise also makes a cameo in the over-the-top comedy, disguised in a fat suit – “He will blow people away,” said our source.

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