The idea that Cruise’s character Les Grossman should dance was apparently an idea that Cruise had from the outset, but Stiller wasn’t sold as he wasn’t sure how it would fit into the movie.
Film readers agreed that Les Grossman is Tom Cruise's best ... hands" and two dance sequences were his requests. Grossman breaks out the dance moves first to Flo Rida's "Apple Bottom Jeans ...
I went 'Oh my God!' and that’s why I left the circle. It was the weirdest dance', Mel B revealed in the new Netflix show ...
He wanted to have big, thick forearms that were hairy (he wanted to be Jewish, OK) and he wanted to dance ... Tom Cruise didn’t simply create Les Grossman’s look or the way he moves.