Assembly Tom Cruise is a pinch me second for a lot of younger actors, however assembly Tom Cruise whereas he’s in character because the foul-mouthed Hollywood agent Len Grossman from “Tropic Thunder” is a complete totally different beast. Michael Cera discovered the humorous manner when he confirmed as much as movie a pre-taped section for the 2010 MTV Film Awards alongside Cruise as Grossman.

“Tom Cruise did one the place he was taking part in his character from ‘Tropic Thunder,’ the film mogul man,” Cera mentioned on the “Louis Theroux Podcast” (through Leisure Weekly). “So that they had been capturing all day these little clips of him and that character interacting with numerous individuals coming out and in, and I got here in and I did a little bit second with him on that.”

“Tom runs the set,” he added. “I used to be actually there for like 5 minutes, however what I noticed was, he was like the primary AD on the set…. I imply, he was such a frontrunner. The primary second I had with him, I arrived, they had been capturing, and I used to be speaking to the author. We had been simply sort of mumbling whereas they had been capturing, however they may hear us. It was identical to 40 ft away. And Tom Cruise seems at me, I’ve by no means met him, and so they’re in the midst of a take and he seems, and he goes, ‘Is that Michael Cera speaking throughout a fucking take?’ He was joking, but it surely was additionally like, ‘Do shut up,’ you already know? However so surreal.”

Cera got here nose to nose with Cruise later that day, explaining: “Then I met him and he’s like, ‘Speaking throughout a fucing take.’ I knew he was taking part in round, so I used to be like, ‘Hey man, it wasn’t me, it was the author.’ He was like, ‘I’m kidding, I’m kidding.’ And I used to be like, ‘I’m kidding, too.’”

Cruise earned a Golden Globe nomination for his efficiency as Les Grossman in “Tropic Thunder,” Ben Stiller’s Hollywood satire concerning the making of a Vietnam Warfare film gone flawed. The actor’s longtime “Mission: Not possible” collaborator Christopher McQuarrie just lately mentioned on the “Completely happy Unhappy Confused” podcast that he and Cruise have been discussing a possible Les Grossman film.

“The conversations we’ve had about Les Grossman are so fucking humorous,” McQuarrie mentioned. “[Cruise and I are] speaking about it, we’re having very severe conversations about it, and the way finest to do it. It in the end comes all the way down to what that character is.”

Hearken to Ceria’s full interview on the “Louis Theroux Podcast” right here.