Tom Cruise has played some iconic movie roles from Maverick in the ... best roles without mentioning his performance in Tropic Thunder as Les Grossman. A great deal has been said about the part ...

Robert Downey Jr. earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Academy Awards for playing Kirk Lazarus/"Sergeant Lincoln Osiris" in "Tropic Thunder." (Though it took 15 years and "Oppenheimer ...

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 ...

On location in southeast Vietnam, they are the stars of "Tropic Thunder ... Meanwhile, the movie's megalomaniacal profanity spewing producer Les Grossman and Speedman's faithful agent Rick ...

A movie within a movie is the best way to describe this comedy starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. It’s the story of three big name actors – Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr ...

One of the highlights of the 2008 Ben Stiller comedy "Tropic Thunder" is Les Grossman, the venom-spewing ... in his multimillion-dollar movie has been kidnapped in the jungles of Vietnam.

Ben Stiller may have inadvertently fanned the flames of Tropic Thunder’s several controversies ... Cruise “had two requests,” Stiller told O’Brien of Thunder’s movie studio character, Les Grossman.