Tropic Thunder Premiere: Ben Stiller Denies Taunting Disabled People

Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder pic might receive a boycott. And surprisingly not from black people (Robert Downey Jr. plays his role in blackface).

Stiller plays an actor that starred in a movie called Simple Jack in which he played a developmentally disabled dude in hopes for an Oscar. And he gets taunted throughout the film with the word "retard."

So, as you can imagine, the dude who runs the Special Olympics is annoyed.

"We will continue to be vocal about the destructive effect of this film. We are asking people not to go to the movie and hope to bring a consciousness to people about using derogatory words about this population," Peter Wheeler says.

"It's sort of edgy territory, but we felt that as long as the focus was on the actors who were trying to do something to be taken seriously that's going too far or wrong, that was where the humor would come from," Stiller insisted. "[The joke is on] actors reaching for roles in terms of hopefully winning awards."

Good luck with that, Simple Jack. Can we boycott fat Tom Cruise?

Click any image to view all 20+ photos of Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor from the premiere of Tropic Thunder in the gallery!

Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder pic might receive a boycott. And surprisingly not from black people (Robert Downey Jr. plays his role in blackface).

Stiller plays an actor that starred in a movie called Simple Jack in which he played a developmentally disabled dude in hopes for an Oscar. And he gets taunted throughout the film with the word "retard."

So, as you can imagine, the dude who runs the Special Olympics is annoyed.

"We will continue to be vocal about the destructive effect of this film. We are asking people not to go to the movie and hope to bring a consciousness to people about using derogatory words about this population," Peter Wheeler says.

"It's sort of edgy territory, but we felt that as long as the focus was on the actors who were trying to do something to be taken seriously that's going too far or wrong, that was where the humor would come from," Stiller insisted. "[The joke is on] actors reaching for roles in terms of hopefully winning awards."

Good luck with that, Simple Jack. Can we boycott fat Tom Cruise?

Check out all 20+ photos of Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor from the premiere of Tropic Thunder in the gallery!