The idea of playing a fat, balding movie executive in Ben Stiller’s new comedy Tropic Thunder was all Tom Cruise’s.
The actor is largely unrecognisable in the new film and Stiller admits he had to do nothing to get the movie icon into a fat suit.
The funnyman explains, “The role was his idea. It wasn’t even in the script. I didn’t have to persuade him.
“Tom is amazing. We’d be talking about the characters, and in the middle of the conversation he’d say something like, `My character should have these giant hands.’
“I seriously believe the man is a movie savant.” (ContactMusic)
