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Apr 19, 2022 · Les Grossman (BEST MOMENTS) - Tropic Thunder. Check out the funniest scenes from Tom Cruise's hilarious cameo, as Les Grossman in 200's Tropic Thunder. TM & © Paramount PicturesFair...
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Les Grossman : [turns off the music] Or... you can grow a conscience in the next five minutes and see where that takes you. Rick Peck : Let me get this straight.
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Tom Cruise needed to repair his image in 2007. Years of conflict with marriages, jumping on couches, and squabbles with the studio making his Mission Impossible movies put him in a bad light. Ultimately, Tropic Thunder was the film that helped (momentarily) rehabilitate his image. But Tom wasn't supposed to play Les Grossman, the vicious studio exe...
While Tom brought a certain amount of energy to the role, his hair, make-up, and prosthetics were really what made the performance memorable. After all, Tom was barely recognizable. "I was Tom’s go-to makeup person from Interview With the Vampire on. I did a lot of big, iconic looks for him," makeup designer Michèle Burke said. "I got a text saying...
"We’re doing the makeup test and it’s the first time Tom’s in the Les Grossman outfit. He stops and says, 'Maybe I should dance in this. You know, I haven’t danced in a movie in a long time,'" producer Stuart Cornfeld said. The Mission Impossible and Eye Wide Shut star ended up choreographing all of his own dance moves which just made everyone on t...
Tom Cruise played a vile Hollywood mogul in Tropic Thunder, but he was originally supposed to star as Ben Stiller's character. Learn how he created the memorable Les Grossman with his hair, make-up, and dance moves.
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Tropic Thunder is a 2008 satirical action comedy film directed by Ben Stiller, who wrote the screenplay with Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, and Brandon T. Jackson as a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film.
Aug 25, 2018 · It took a 12-person team of makeup experts to design the silicone prosthetics that transformed the movie-star proportion of Cruise into the unkempt husk of the debased Hollywood mogul Grossman.
Aug 13, 2008 · Tropic Thunder: Directed by Ben Stiller. With Jeff Kahn, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Ruivivar, Jack Black. Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
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Jul 30, 2015 · How Tom Cruise transformed himself into the villainous Hollywood mogul Les Grossman for Tropic Thunder, a comedy that revived his career and mocked his industry. Hear from the filmmakers and actors who created and played the role.
