India, March 20 -- Ben Stiller, while appearing on Jason and Travis Kelce's New Heights Podcast, has revealed how his biggest films came about in an unexpected way because of Tom Cruise.

Stiller, who is currently enjoying the success of his Apple TV+ series Severance, recounts his friendship with the Mission: Impossible star and how it led to the creation of 'Tropic Thunder' most iconic characters.

The two actors initially bonded after working on a "fun and weird" short film for the 2000 MTV Movie Awards, and they kept in touch. "We stayed in touch, a few years go by," he said.

"And actually, we'd been talking about trying to figure something to do but [we] hadn't figured it out, and then, I was working on the Tropic Thunder script." ...