Josh Margolin reveals they got Tom Cruise's blessing during Thelma's production.
There are plenty of movies to catch in theaters this weekend with new films like Yorgos Lanthimos' Kinds of Kindness being released while last week's Inside Out 2 is still thriving at the box office in its second week. Another movie to hit the big screens this weekend was Thelma , the action-comedy starring 94-year-old June Squibb , who can also be heard in Inside Out 2 voicing Nostalgia.
"It came during production," Margolin explained to The Hollywood Reporter when asked if they got Cruise's permission to use him in the film."We shot two versions of those scenes, one with Tom on and then one with like a replaceable green box. It was surprisingly smooth. Nicky Weinstock, who's a producer on the movie, was at the same agency as him and has some pals in common there.
What Is Thelma About?You can read the official synopsis for Thelma here:"Thelma Post is a feisty 93-year-old grandmother who gets conned by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson and sets out on a treacherous quest across Los Angeles, accompanied by an aging friend and his motorized scooter, to reclaim what was taken from her.
"The idea behind the movie, our director, Josh Margolin — writer, director, and editor — his real grandmother, Thelma Post, who's 103 years old, is the basis for June's character…His real grandmother was almost the victim of a phone scam similar to this, so he sort of imagined, 'If she was, what would she do?'" Hechinger told Collider.
Hechinger continued,"And so, that was the other jumping-off point was, what does that actually look like? What does action, in all of its fragility, in all of its commitment, in all of its messiness actually look like on screen?"
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