'Incredibly Dicey': Ben Stiller Doubts If He Could Make 'Tropic Thunder' Today

Robert Downey Jr. starred in the 2008 satire as an Australian actor who uses blackface to portray an African-American soldier.

Ben Stiller says “Tropic Thunder” would be far too “dicey” of a prospect for today’s climate.

Stiller was celebrated for co-writing, directing, co-producing and starring in the 2008 comedy, which satirized war movies and mocked the self-centered nature of certain actors who actually believe they’re changing the world.

The film starred Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus, a fictional Australian actor who uses blackface to portray an African-American soldier, which was certainly controversial at the time — but also earned him a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Oscar nod.

When asked by Collider if the film could even get made today, however, Stiller said simply: “I doubt it.”

“Obviously, in this environment, edgier comedy is just harder to do,” he continued in the interview, published Sunday. “Definitely not at the scale we made it at, too, in terms of the economics of the business. I think even at the time we were fortunate to get it made.”