Thirty-five years after Fisher Stevens' breakout role in the sci-fi comedy Short Circuit, the actor is opening up about the regret he feels for playing an Indian character in brownface.

Fisher, who now produces and directs, played Indian engineer Ben Jabituya in the 1986 film and even reprised the role in the movie's 1988 sequel. The role involved him sitting through multiple rounds of makeup to appear "Indian," as well as changing his voice to sound more ethnic.