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🎬Tom Cruise doesn’t do traditional screen tests. 😂😂😂😂 So when Ben Stiller needed to see him in the Les Grossman makeup for Tropic Thunder, they just rolled cameras on the first full look. Cruise showed up, demanded “fat hands,” and then — with no music playing — launched into...

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Tom Cruise as Les Grossman dancing in Tropic Thunder (2008) is gold💰 That fat suit, hairy chest, and Cruise going full savage to “Low” with those wild moves. Just Cruise committing 100% and stealing the movie in one of the funniest dance scenes ever.🕺 (Credit: Paramount)
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Tom Cruise as Les Grossman dancing in Tropic Thunder (2008) is gold💰 That fat suit, hairy chest, and Cruise going full savage to “Low” with those wild moves. Just Cruise committing 100% and stealing the movie in one of the funniest dance scenes ever.🕺 (Credit: Paramount)

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The funniest part of Tom Cruise’s “Les Grossman” character in Tropic Thunder is that Ben Stiller offered him another role… …but Cruise created and pitched the idea of a Hollywood superagent instead and told Stiller, “I want fat hands and I’m going to dance.”
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The funniest part of Tom Cruise’s “Les Grossman” character in Tropic Thunder is that Ben Stiller offered him another role… …but Cruise created and pitched the idea of a Hollywood superagent instead and told Stiller, “I want fat hands and I’m going to dance.”

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“Tom Cruise is my guy...He plays no games.” Ludacris keeps it real about his relationship with Tom Cruise and how Cruise dancing to “Get Back” as Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder gave the record a whole new life on Drink Champs 🤯 That is hands down the coolest response I've ever heard about Tom Cruise. Tropic Thunder is a once in a lifetime thing that is never going to happen again. RDJ (BlackFace) to Tom Lex Grossman Cruise that movie was awesome 🤣🤣 check this out y’all 🫵
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“Tom Cruise is my guy...He plays no games.” Ludacris keeps it real about his relationship with Tom Cruise and how Cruise dancing to “Get Back” as Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder gave the record a whole new life on Drink Champs 🤯 That is hands down the coolest response I've ever heard about Tom Cruise. Tropic Thunder is a once in a lifetime thing that is never going to happen again. RDJ (BlackFace) to Tom Lex Grossman Cruise that movie was awesome 🤣🤣 check this out y’all 🫵

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A test audience, who saw "Top Gun" (1986) before it was released were annoyed that there was no love scene in the movie. Five months after the production had wrapped, the producers summoned Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis to Chicago to film the infamous elevator scene and the s€x scene. During their time away from the set, McGillis had lost approximately sixteen pounds, and Cruise was filming "The Color of Money" (1986), so his hair was much longer in those two scenes. McGillis' hair was also much darker. That's why she hid it underneath a cap in the elevator scene & in the lovemaking scene, it was all silhouette because of the colour of her hair.
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A test audience, who saw "Top Gun" (1986) before it was released were annoyed that there was no love scene in the movie. Five months after the production had wrapped, the producers summoned Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis to Chicago to film the infamous elevator scene and the s€x scene. During their time away from the set, McGillis had lost approximately sixteen pounds, and Cruise was filming "The Color of Money" (1986), so his hair was much longer in those two scenes. McGillis' hair was also much darker. That's why she hid it underneath a cap in the elevator scene & in the lovemaking scene, it was all silhouette because of the colour of her hair.

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"Tom Cruise had only done one movie, Risky Business, but he was already a cultural phenomenon." Top Gun producer Chad Oman on how Jerry Bruckheimer and Tom Cruise convinced the Navy to make Top Gun: "The Navy said no. There's no chance they will ever support the making of a movie about Top Gun pilots." "Jerry found a way to get a meeting with John Lehman, Secretary of Defense under Reagan, and took Tom Cruise with him. Lehman said, 'I get it. I know what you're trying to do, and I see how this could be great for the Navy.'" 36 years later, they went back to make Maverick: "All the guys in charge of the Navy — almost every single one of them had joined the Navy because they saw the first movie." The Hill & Valley Forum 2026 The Hill & Valley Forum Ben Schwerin COATUE
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"Tom Cruise had only done one movie, Risky Business, but he was already a cultural phenomenon." Top Gun producer Chad Oman on how Jerry Bruckheimer and Tom Cruise convinced the Navy to make Top Gun: "The Navy said no. There's no chance they will ever support the making of a movie about Top Gun pilots." "Jerry found a way to get a meeting with John Lehman, Secretary of Defense under Reagan, and took Tom Cruise with him. Lehman said, 'I get it. I know what you're trying to do, and I see how this could be great for the Navy.'" 36 years later, they went back to make Maverick: "All the guys in charge of the Navy — almost every single one of them had joined the Navy because they saw the first movie." The Hill & Valley Forum 2026 The Hill & Valley Forum Ben Schwerin COATUE

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Bruce Buffer shares what it was like meeting Tom Cruise, Shakira, and David Beckham at the FIFA World Cup final: "I went back up to the suite they had me in, and in walked Tom Cruise and Shakira. We were all hanging out together, and I was like, ‘This is really a fun day.’ I will say that meeting Tom Cruise was very cool. He’s so down-to-earth and so humble. I’m a big fan. I’ve always enjoyed his work. Then, the funny thing is, I went into the restroom real quick and ran into Beckham in there, but we all know the man law. He was in the suite next to me, and we ended up taking a picture together.”
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Bruce Buffer shares what it was like meeting Tom Cruise, Shakira, and David Beckham at the FIFA World Cup final: "I went back up to the suite they had me in, and in walked Tom Cruise and Shakira. We were all hanging out together, and I was like, ‘This is really a fun day.’ I will say that meeting Tom Cruise was very cool. He’s so down-to-earth and so humble. I’m a big fan. I’ve always enjoyed his work. Then, the funny thing is, I went into the restroom real quick and ran into Beckham in there, but we all know the man law. He was in the suite next to me, and we ended up taking a picture together.”

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Tom Cruise explains how people's preconception affected Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" (1997) "Cruise: People had a preconception about 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1997). And I see how that affected the picture. I think they expected some big s€x movie. As opposed to— and Stanley was very specific about it— s€xual obsession and jealousy. It’s not about s€x. And there were rumors out there about how Stanley was going to make a p0rn0gr@phic picture. But that wasn’t the movie he was making. You can see that they didn’t quite grasp what the movie was, even when they saw it, because they carried the baggage in. They read [screenwriter Frederic] Raphael’s ridiculous book [which portrayed Kubrick as a self-serving collaborator]. And they kind of reviewed it based on that. Interviewer: Do you think the teaser trailer had something to do with the expectation of a more p0rn0gr@phic movie? Was he toying with those expectations? Cruise: Probably. That [trailer] was the first stage for him. You have to understand: it’s Stanley Kubrick. It’s not going to be what you think it is. And he’s not going to tell you everything. So even the people who think they know Stanley Kubrick’s movies... missed it. Because whatever preconception you have, you’ve got to take it on its own merits and not the surrounding elements. In the same way, when I look back at 'Ryan’s Daughter' (1970) and I hear and read the stuff that David Lean went through ... It’s a very painful, lonely, desperate picture. [Shakes head.] And a great one. (Tom Cruise's interview with Cameron Crowe, Vanity Fair, 2000)

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The time when Tom Cruise was too nervous to do a stunt: In this scene in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Outsiders" (1983), Tom Cruise does a standing back tuck from the top of a truck. Patrick Swayze coached him beforehand on how to do it. Right before filming the scene, Cruise nervously approached writer S.E. Hinton and said he was afraid he would be unable to do it because he felt nauseous from overeating at lunch. Hinton asked him if he thought he would feel better if he threw up, and Cruise said he thought so. Hinton took him to the food truck and made him drink raw eggs until he threw up, resulting in Cruise feeling much better and performing the stunt without a problem. (Source: IMDb) P.S: On this day, 43 years ago, "The Outsiders" (1983) premiered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
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The time when Tom Cruise was too nervous to do a stunt: In this scene in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Outsiders" (1983), Tom Cruise does a standing back tuck from the top of a truck. Patrick Swayze coached him beforehand on how to do it. Right before filming the scene, Cruise nervously approached writer S.E. Hinton and said he was afraid he would be unable to do it because he felt nauseous from overeating at lunch. Hinton asked him if he thought he would feel better if he threw up, and Cruise said he thought so. Hinton took him to the food truck and made him drink raw eggs until he threw up, resulting in Cruise feeling much better and performing the stunt without a problem. (Source: IMDb) P.S: On this day, 43 years ago, "The Outsiders" (1983) premiered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

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Alfonso Cuarón on how this continuous shot in "Children of Men" (2006) was clinched in the final attempt & the "Miracle" that occurred while filming: "Interviewer: When Theo runs into a hollowed-out bus in that shot, blood splatters on the camera lens. Can you tell me how that happened? Cuarón: Initially, there was going to be blood splatter on the lens when they ki!!ed Julianne Moore. We were going to add that digitally. But long story short — or long story long — is that for [the refugee camp] shot, we had like 14 days to shoot the whole set piece, except by day 12 we hadn’t rolled cameras yet. As you can guess, by day three that you don’t shoot camera, they send a production guy from the studio to visit you. By the sixth day that you haven’t done it, the creative executive comes to visit you. Well, by the time that you reach the 11th day, the head of the studio is there. That kind of stuff. And the problem is that we had only two shots a day to do the thing. The morning, then you have to reset the explosions, the screams, the whole thing. Five hours to reset. So you only have another shot right before the light goes away. And the problem is that, we could not extend it to the 15th day, because there was already a commitment with the army or something, one of those things. So we are in the 13th day, and in the afternoon, we do our first shot. Then after a minute and a half, it just was wrong. So we had to reset for the next day. The next morning we do the first take, and everything is perfect, and we’re about to reach the end. We were running towards getting inside the building, when [camera operator] George [Richardson] tripped, and so the camera fell. So we only had one more shot for one more before we have to move out. It was the end of my career. Interviewer: Were you panicking at that point? Cuarón: You know, at that point, you’re just focusing. Interviewer: Okay, so you get to the final attempt at the shot. Cuarón: And when we arrived at the bus, the camera goes in, and blood splatters the lens. With my little monitor, I see that I cannot see anything. I yell, “Cut!” But an explosion happens at the same time, so nobody hears me. And that gives me time to think, “Look, I have to roll to the end.” So we kept on going. When we said, “Cut,” Chivo [Emmanuel Lubezki] starts dancing like crazy. And I was like, “No, it didn’t work! There’s blood!” And Chivo turns to me and says, “You stupid! That was a miracle! The blood goes here, not with Julianne Moore!” Yeah, that was supposed to go in the other scene, but it happened here." ("The Vulture Transcript: Alfonso Cuarón on Children of Men", Abraham Josephine Riesman, Vulture, 2017)
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Alfonso Cuarón on how this continuous shot in "Children of Men" (2006) was clinched in the final attempt & the "Miracle" that occurred while filming: "Interviewer: When Theo runs into a hollowed-out bus in that shot, blood splatters on the camera lens. Can you tell me how that happened? Cuarón: Initially, there was going to be blood splatter on the lens when they ki!!ed Julianne Moore. We were going to add that digitally. But long story short — or long story long — is that for [the refugee camp] shot, we had like 14 days to shoot the whole set piece, except by day 12 we hadn’t rolled cameras yet. As you can guess, by day three that you don’t shoot camera, they send a production guy from the studio to visit you. By the sixth day that you haven’t done it, the creative executive comes to visit you. Well, by the time that you reach the 11th day, the head of the studio is there. That kind of stuff. And the problem is that we had only two shots a day to do the thing. The morning, then you have to reset the explosions, the screams, the whole thing. Five hours to reset. So you only have another shot right before the light goes away. And the problem is that, we could not extend it to the 15th day, because there was already a commitment with the army or something, one of those things. So we are in the 13th day, and in the afternoon, we do our first shot. Then after a minute and a half, it just was wrong. So we had to reset for the next day. The next morning we do the first take, and everything is perfect, and we’re about to reach the end. We were running towards getting inside the building, when [camera operator] George [Richardson] tripped, and so the camera fell. So we only had one more shot for one more before we have to move out. It was the end of my career. Interviewer: Were you panicking at that point? Cuarón: You know, at that point, you’re just focusing. Interviewer: Okay, so you get to the final attempt at the shot. Cuarón: And when we arrived at the bus, the camera goes in, and blood splatters the lens. With my little monitor, I see that I cannot see anything. I yell, “Cut!” But an explosion happens at the same time, so nobody hears me. And that gives me time to think, “Look, I have to roll to the end.” So we kept on going. When we said, “Cut,” Chivo [Emmanuel Lubezki] starts dancing like crazy. And I was like, “No, it didn’t work! There’s blood!” And Chivo turns to me and says, “You stupid! That was a miracle! The blood goes here, not with Julianne Moore!” Yeah, that was supposed to go in the other scene, but it happened here." ("The Vulture Transcript: Alfonso Cuarón on Children of Men", Abraham Josephine Riesman, Vulture, 2017)

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That time Tom Cruise called Zack Snyder to congratulate him on 300's opening weekend box office . "Everyone was pretty confident, but they weren't really sure. I mean, I think it was 70 something million dollars it made in its opening weekend. "And I was shooting a TV commercial the day, that Sunday morning in downtown LA, and I got a call from Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise called me to say congratulations, okay, had nothing to do with the movie, didn't work at Warner Brothers. "I'd met him once over at his house to talk about cuz he'd seen the trailer for 300 was like this is awesome. And I just kind of tell him how he did it and everything was really, he's a sort of student of cinema and student film. "So he really wanted to know what this was. And he's the one that called me and said like '$70 million opening weekend. Congratulations, that's awesome!' "I was like, 'thanks Tom.'"

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Steven Seagal says Tom Cruise was one of the worst casting choices in The Last Samurai. “They have a 5-foot-2-inch little guy, whether he was straight or gay, I don’t know. He had never been to Japan. He doesn’t speak Japanese. He has never held a sword. They make him the Last Samurai.” “I was raised in Japan. I was schooled in martial arts. I was given the title of master. We got 450,000 phone calls from everybody in the world saying, ‘That role was perfect for you. How did that happen?” “Most of the people I know didn’t like the film and didn’t go see it. It’s just a classic example of Hollywood and the politics.”
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Steven Seagal says Tom Cruise was one of the worst casting choices in The Last Samurai. “They have a 5-foot-2-inch little guy, whether he was straight or gay, I don’t know. He had never been to Japan. He doesn’t speak Japanese. He has never held a sword. They make him the Last Samurai.” “I was raised in Japan. I was schooled in martial arts. I was given the title of master. We got 450,000 phone calls from everybody in the world saying, ‘That role was perfect for you. How did that happen?” “Most of the people I know didn’t like the film and didn’t go see it. It’s just a classic example of Hollywood and the politics.”

Emir Han

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In 2007, Nike assembled Kanye West, Nas, Rakim, KRS-One & DJ Premier to create a hip hop anthem to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Air Force 1 sneaker. “Rick Rubin did the original, and word on the street is they weren’t satisfied with the outcome, says DJ Premier. It was a whole different tempo, and a whole different approach. Rob Stone said they might actually want to remix it. Actually, KRS-One called me and said, ‘Yo, I need you to help fix this record.’ Then I saw the launch on MTV, and I figured that’s over with, when they launch the sneaker and everything. Then all of a sudden I got a call back again two or three weeks later saying, ‘Yo, they still want you to do something.’ So they sent me the parts, and everything was different. Kanye, Nas, and KRS did the joint to the Rick Rubin beat. Rakim wanted to make his own beat. So he made his own beat, but at the wrong tempo. So when I got it I had to tweak it to get him to that tempo, but still keep him in the same tone of voice. You can do that with technology. So I had to keep him in the same key. He was at a 100 rpm, but it was 107, so that’s a big step. So I stay tuned in the same zero note that he pulled, sped it up, and it matched. Then I just pieced the whole thing together. “For the video, Rakim came here, and we turned all the lights down, and just made it really dark. Since he’s the only one who came here, when you see the play back, it’s ill. We shot him just with the acapella so we can bring him back in. When I saw that, even though Rakim was last on the song, in the video, I thought he should go first. And that’s how we flipped it around. The video was dope, man.”
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In 2007, Nike assembled Kanye West, Nas, Rakim, KRS-One & DJ Premier to create a hip hop anthem to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Air Force 1 sneaker. “Rick Rubin did the original, and word on the street is they weren’t satisfied with the outcome, says DJ Premier. It was a whole different tempo, and a whole different approach. Rob Stone said they might actually want to remix it. Actually, KRS-One called me and said, ‘Yo, I need you to help fix this record.’ Then I saw the launch on MTV, and I figured that’s over with, when they launch the sneaker and everything. Then all of a sudden I got a call back again two or three weeks later saying, ‘Yo, they still want you to do something.’ So they sent me the parts, and everything was different. Kanye, Nas, and KRS did the joint to the Rick Rubin beat. Rakim wanted to make his own beat. So he made his own beat, but at the wrong tempo. So when I got it I had to tweak it to get him to that tempo, but still keep him in the same tone of voice. You can do that with technology. So I had to keep him in the same key. He was at a 100 rpm, but it was 107, so that’s a big step. So I stay tuned in the same zero note that he pulled, sped it up, and it matched. Then I just pieced the whole thing together. “For the video, Rakim came here, and we turned all the lights down, and just made it really dark. Since he’s the only one who came here, when you see the play back, it’s ill. We shot him just with the acapella so we can bring him back in. When I saw that, even though Rakim was last on the song, in the video, I thought he should go first. And that’s how we flipped it around. The video was dope, man.”

Sleeping On Gems

127,635 views • 7 months ago

A single sentence from Tom Cruise at a tiny screening room in America saved Guy Ritchie's "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998) from failure & also Matthew Vaughn's career. This is how it went down. Matthew Vaughn struggled to find distributors for "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998). Every distributor who saw the movie, rejected it. The only offers he got were to release it on VHS. Somehow, Vaughn managed to find a distributor to show the movie in two screens in England. He asked Trudie Styler, who had already put money into the movie to convince Tom Cruise to attend the buyers screening in the USA. The screening was conducted in a tiny room. When Cruise turned up, all the mid level executives who were sort of disinterested, started to pay attention; They rang up the senior executives & they too joined the screening. When the film was over, Cruise got up in front of everyone and said, "This is the best movie I've seen in years, you guys would be fools not to buy it." After Cruise's appreciation for the movie, there was a bidding war. Vaughn recalled, "We made all our money back and my film career came from nearly ending to starting." P.S: On this day, 28 years ago, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998) premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland.
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A single sentence from Tom Cruise at a tiny screening room in America saved Guy Ritchie's "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998) from failure & also Matthew Vaughn's career. This is how it went down. Matthew Vaughn struggled to find distributors for "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998). Every distributor who saw the movie, rejected it. The only offers he got were to release it on VHS. Somehow, Vaughn managed to find a distributor to show the movie in two screens in England. He asked Trudie Styler, who had already put money into the movie to convince Tom Cruise to attend the buyers screening in the USA. The screening was conducted in a tiny room. When Cruise turned up, all the mid level executives who were sort of disinterested, started to pay attention; They rang up the senior executives & they too joined the screening. When the film was over, Cruise got up in front of everyone and said, "This is the best movie I've seen in years, you guys would be fools not to buy it." After Cruise's appreciation for the movie, there was a bidding war. Vaughn recalled, "We made all our money back and my film career came from nearly ending to starting." P.S: On this day, 28 years ago, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" (1998) premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland.

DepressedBergman

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🚨 THEY KILLED HIM OVER THIS!? The co-writer of Pulp Fiction reveals to Joe Rogan that the original script of EYES WIDE SHUT was about the discovery of an ELITE PEDO RING. 🤯 After the studio watched a cut of the movie they demanded Kubrick remove the pedo references. Kubrick fought back and ended up dead before the premier. According to Roger Avary who has the original script the film was centered around an elite pedophile ring and the final scene in the movie was meant to depict Tom Cruise and Nicole's characters selling their child to the ring.
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🚨 THEY KILLED HIM OVER THIS!? The co-writer of Pulp Fiction reveals to Joe Rogan that the original script of EYES WIDE SHUT was about the discovery of an ELITE PEDO RING. 🤯 After the studio watched a cut of the movie they demanded Kubrick remove the pedo references. Kubrick fought back and ended up dead before the premier. According to Roger Avary who has the original script the film was centered around an elite pedophile ring and the final scene in the movie was meant to depict Tom Cruise and Nicole's characters selling their child to the ring.

TUPACABRA

4,021,040 views • 1 year ago

That “Never go full…” scene in Tropic Thunder is pure chaotic satire — outrageous, uncomfortable, and unbelievably funny because of how seriously everyone commits to the bit. Robert Downey Jr. absolutely steals the movie with a performance so over-the-top and self-aware that it somehow became iconic comedy history. Tropic Thunder really said “let’s make the most insane Hollywood satire possible” — and somehow pulled it off.
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That “Never go full…” scene in Tropic Thunder is pure chaotic satire — outrageous, uncomfortable, and unbelievably funny because of how seriously everyone commits to the bit. Robert Downey Jr. absolutely steals the movie with a performance so over-the-top and self-aware that it somehow became iconic comedy history. Tropic Thunder really said “let’s make the most insane Hollywood satire possible” — and somehow pulled it off.

Love Classical Music and Movies 🎺🎻💖🎥🎬

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BACK STORY: A teacher friend told me this story about teaching kids words with different suffix examples and when he asked his students for words ending in “an”, a grade one student said “lesbian”. No big deal but the writers and I thought it would be funny to run with that a bit. So we wrote the cold open as you see in the photos of the script. On the day of filming, two of the writers, Shebli Zarghami and @Jessie_Gabe came to me and suggested we add “words that end in “on”-prostitution”. So I ran with that and the kids and I improvised what you see in the scene. At that point, we were done with the scene and very happy about it. In my opinion, what Jessie and Sheb suggested next is what made the scene go viral BUT, we were too late because they thought of it AFTER, we had already shot (videoed) the kids. I spoke with Keith our director and suggested it was worth grabbing a wild line (no camera) of adding one more word suffix and joke that Jessie and Sheb thought of: “Words that end in “re”- crack whore”. It would be take too much time to turn all the cameras around to shoot Faith saying two works (crack whore) but I thought the line was so funny, that it was worth grabbing it. So we did and the that’s why you don’t see Faith saying the line but for me, it took the scene to another level. On this show, we always added lines on the day from anyone who had them, especially the writers. We wrote great scripts but sometimes we found these little moments on the day of filming that added to the scene. We never stopped looking for the funny and in this case the instincts (and comedy) of Jessie and Sheb took this scene to another level!! #MrD
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BACK STORY: A teacher friend told me this story about teaching kids words with different suffix examples and when he asked his students for words ending in “an”, a grade one student said “lesbian”. No big deal but the writers and I thought it would be funny to run with that a bit. So we wrote the cold open as you see in the photos of the script. On the day of filming, two of the writers, Shebli Zarghami and @Jessie_Gabe came to me and suggested we add “words that end in “on”-prostitution”. So I ran with that and the kids and I improvised what you see in the scene. At that point, we were done with the scene and very happy about it. In my opinion, what Jessie and Sheb suggested next is what made the scene go viral BUT, we were too late because they thought of it AFTER, we had already shot (videoed) the kids. I spoke with Keith our director and suggested it was worth grabbing a wild line (no camera) of adding one more word suffix and joke that Jessie and Sheb thought of: “Words that end in “re”- crack whore”. It would be take too much time to turn all the cameras around to shoot Faith saying two works (crack whore) but I thought the line was so funny, that it was worth grabbing it. So we did and the that’s why you don’t see Faith saying the line but for me, it took the scene to another level. On this show, we always added lines on the day from anyone who had them, especially the writers. We wrote great scripts but sometimes we found these little moments on the day of filming that added to the scene. We never stopped looking for the funny and in this case the instincts (and comedy) of Jessie and Sheb took this scene to another level!! #MrD

Gerry Dee

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