Music Mogul, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, says that he wasn’t Black enough to star in the in Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder” film.
Combs admits that he auditioned for the role of an African-American actor which was famously portrayed by Caucasian star Robert Downey Jr. who used make-up to change the color of his skin for the role in Ben Stiller’s movie. Combs was turned down.
Combs joked: “I have not been in any of Ben Stiller’s movies. I guess I wasn’t black enough to be in Tropic Thunder. Robert Downey Jr. was a little bit blacker. I tried out for the role but I came up short. I put Ben in the video for my single Bad Boy for Life and I thought he would return the favor.”
Combs was among a host of celebrity guests at a black tie dinner honoring actor-turned-director Ben at New York’s The Museum of the Moving Image on Wednesday night.
Personally, I don’t think that Diddy could have pulled it off. I think that he and Beyonce give themselves a little too much credit when it comes to their acting skills. Also, I thought that the whole point of the way the script was written was that the character wasn’t really Black which is why the other Black character kept snapping on Downey Jr. for his remarks about being Black.
