Ben Stiller: Taking Chances with "Tropic Thunder"

Stiller said it will be fun for audiences to watch Cruise in this movie "because he really takes some chances."

Groups boycott Ben Stiller's "Tropic Thunder" for its portrayal of disabled individuals, and for using the "r-word."

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So, has Stiller become one of those Hollywood types his movie mocks?

"Well, I think that's why I made this movie," he said. "All of a sudden it's just sort of you can have this, and you can have this, and you have to be careful about that."

"You know, my wife will call me on it," he said. "I just also think it's the nature of the stressful nature of making movies, where there is, like, where you are in a situation where you are called on to do a scene and be funny, and do this, and 'people, can you now go a little cuckoo?'"