It took a 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. Viewers have long wondered if Grossman was meant as a caricature of anyone in particular—Harvey Weinstein comes to mind.
The disgraced executive, who bears something of a physical resemblance to Grossman, was also notorious for his extreme outbursts as the head of Miramax, among the other, more criminal predilections that 87 women have now accused him of. Rumors were floated of a Les Grossman spinoff movie in the works in , but it never materialized. That has made it tough for some moviegoers to separate his on-screen persona from the man.
Les Grossman was an opportunity for Cruise, for the first and perhaps only time in his career, to poke fun at himself and his compulsion to do everything as big and as bold as it can possibly be done. By providing your email, you agree to the Quartz Privacy Policy. Skip to navigation Skip to content.
Discover Membership. Editions Quartz. How do you get back into a time-loop? I felt like I had never seen that in a time-loop movie, and it was cool. It kind of broke the basic rule of time-loop movies, which is that it ends when you get out of the time-loop.
I think I had trouble with the logic of it. How close did you get? It would have been cool. Sean Connery would have been the ultimate, but he passed away. Anthony Hopkins. Something with that kind of grizzled, leading man feeling. Daniel Craig. Connie Grayson Criswell lead hair-puncher : It was kind of a pain in the butt because we were punching with very curly human hair.
Curly hair is very hard to punch because it has a mind of its own. And people kept looking at me to see how my hair grows and what the weight is like and how things sit on me. At one point I thought they were trying to turn Tom into me. The character was an amalgam of a lot of traits. Aida Caefer body suit construction : I made the fat suits for Tom Cruise.
He was all for the more ridiculous, the better. The suit went from his neck all the way down to the ankles. On top of it is another layer that ties everything together, and when you put it on, it looks like skin. We had to make three [suits]. The character moved around a lot and he was so soaked in sweat that we had rotating suits for him — one in the morning and one after lunch. Stiller: Tom choreographed all his own moves.
I remember watching him do this stuff and thinking this is so frigging funny. Burke: One day we were in the makeup room and Tom was rehearsing his lines and they were so vulgar and crass. I was taken aback and I thought something had happened to him. It was not his normal thing. Hader: When I was like 5, my dad took me out to these rain towers in northern Tulsa, where I grew up.
You were there. How awesome is that? Caefer: With such a heavy makeup and the heavy workout he was getting, we really had to tend to the actor all the time because there are risks involved — dehydration — so we had to have water for him all the time. Hader: Justin Theroux deserves a ton of credit for the Les Grossman character.
Theroux was the one when I was around who was coming up with all these Grossman lines. Caefer: At the end of the movie, people were seeing his name on the screen, and questioning, Who the heck was Tom Cruise? Which one was Tom Cruise? Cornfeld: So much of it is about availability. Cornfeld: The whole thing was just a gift. Seeing it come together had this weird cosmic layer. Tom comes up with the idea of the character — the dance, having big hands — and he ends up playing the character.
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