Tropic Thunder premiere with Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise, Jack Black & more

The stars were out for the premiere of movie industry parody Tropic Thunder last night. Katie Holmes flew from her Broadway rehearsals in NY to LA in order to accompany her husband to the premiere. Cruise makes a cameo in the film as a swearing paunchy executive in an obvious reference to Sumner Redstone, the Viacom head who fired the actor after his Oprah and Matt Lauer PR scandal. Cruise and Redstone were seen having lunch together earlier this year and Redstone is said to have found Cruise’s imitation funny.

Holmes stood tall in heels next to her husband. She wore a tiered dark blue cami top with a tight pencil skirt that made her look pregnant from some angles. I’m not inclined to think she’s pregnant, though. Katie is pretty slouchy and I’ve been fooled into thinking she was pregnant in the past when she really just had bad posture. In this case I think the skirt is just poofing out at the top a little. There are sure to be people calling her pregnant based on these, but I’m going to have to vote “no” for now.

Disability advocates groups protested outside the premiere last night. They were particularly offended at the repeated use of the word “retard” to refer to a character played by Ben Stiller in a subplot. Tropic Thunder also features Robert Downey Jr. playing an actor who dyed his skin to play an African-American soldier in a Vietnam War movie. Producers say they’re making fun of the lengths actors go to get Oscars and that there is no affront meant to people with disabilities. Groups such as the Special Olympics and American Association of People with Disabilities are calling for a nationwide boycott of the film.

Also shown at the premiere are Jack Black and his wife Tanya, Jodie Foster, Robert Downey, Jr. and his wife Susan, Amy Adams - love her, Alicia Silverstone, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Jason Bateman, Nick Nolte, Steve Coogan and Brandon T. Jackson.

Tropic Thunder is out in the US tomorrow, August 13.

Here’s the premiere, which has some swear words and is NSFW.

Photo credit: Dimitri Halkidis / WENN; Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos

Published 8/12/08 by

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