Tom Cruise played explosive Hollywood exec Les Grossman in the 2008 comedy 'Tropic Thunder,' directed by Ben Stiller Sharareh Drury is a writer on the Movies team at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in ...

Grossman, a standout character featured in Ben Stiller's "Tropic Thunder," may be getting his own film. “The conversations we’ve had about Les Grossman are so fucking funny,” McQuarrie said ...

Tom Cruise's Tropic Thunder character Les Grossman is ready for a comeback. During an interview with Josh Horowitz on his Happy Sad Confused podcast to promote Mission: Impossible — The Final ...

A poster for the supposed sequel to the 2008 film Tropic Thunder featuring Tom Cruise has been making its rounds online. It had fans speculating if the actor would reprise his role as Les Grossman ...

Tropic Thunder star and director Ben Stiller has revealed the bizarre requests Tom Cruise had for his character. Cruise played Les Grossman in the movie, a studio executive with a bad temper who ...

Tropic Thunder saw Cruise make a show-stealing cameo as Les Grossman, a bald, foul-mouthed studio executive who, in one memorable scene, boogies on the dance floor to rapper Ludacris’s song ...

Elon Musk appeared to borrow a line from the 2008 film Tropic Thunder in an ongoing social media fight about H1B visas. Musk hit back against MAGA’s top players in a series of X posts ...

Tom Cruise didn’t just play Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder—he invented him. That’s right. The over-the-top studio executive who danced his way into cinematic history wasn’t in the original ...

The film also includes a cameo from Ben Stiller, Black’s Tropic Thunder co-star. Black and Stiller first worked together on Tropic Thunder back in 2008, another film that took bold swings with ...

However, Stiller admitted that he might not have written and directed “Tropic Thunder” in 2024. “Obviously, in this environment, edgier comedy is just harder to do,” Stiller said.

Ben Stiller is doubtful that his 2008 satirical comedy “Tropic Thunder” could get made today. The film, which centers on a group of egotistical actors making a Vietnam War movie, grossed ...