'Tropic Thunder': Boys Gone Wild!

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: One thing you all have in common is a total lack of inhibition about putting yourselves in potentially embarrassing situations on screen. Do you have a high tolerance for humiliation or is it something you can tap into just in your work?
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.: I have been so wantonly, flagrantly humiliated [in my personal life] that anything that could happen as a result of a movie doesn't even register.
BEN STILLER: [To Downey] Does that give you more fearlessness working — because you're just, like, Who gives a s---?
DOWNEY: It's pretty effective.
JACK BLACK: Look, humiliation hurts. So on the one hand, you have the pain of humiliation. But on the other, you have the delicious guava nectar of laughter. You have to balance it out: How much of this are you willing to endure to get that? Certain people have that thing where they need that guava so badly they'd do anything for it.
DOWNEY: Ben? Humiliation?
STILLER: Yeah, it's definitely been a part of my career. We've all gone for that guava. But I don't know if anybody has a high tolerance for it personally or enjoys it.
DOWNEY: [Shrugs] I do. I like it.

Last question: What's Tropic Thunder 2 going to be?
BLACK: [Pauses, then stabs a finger in the air] Arctic Lightning! It's the opposite of ''tropic'': arctic. You twist it. You flip it.
STILLER: [Laughs] What, like the guys get sent up to the North Pole to do a Thing type of movie?

Or to make a movie of the Ernest Shackleton story, maybe.
STILLER: Yeah, the Shackleton story!
BLACK: Oh my God, that's a great idea.
DOWNEY: Would I actually be playing an Arctic animal then? Like, a narwhal?
BLACK: [Shaking his head] But you can't   really do a sequel to this.
STILLER: Yeah, you can't on this one.
DOWNEY: [Smiling mischievously] Hold on. Let's see the numbers. If the numbers come in like we're expecting, we can at least talk about it.

Originally posted Aug 07, 2008 Published in issue #1006 Aug 15, 2008 Order article reprints

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