Kevin Pollak Reveals Jack Nicholson’s Hilarious On-Set Antics With Tom Cruise During ‘A Few Good Men’

Kevin Pollak opened up about Jack Nicholson‘s playful troublemaking on the set of the 1992 legal drama A Few Good Men, revealing that the Oscar winner, 89, loved to distract Tom Cruise during some of the film’s most iconic scenes.

“Jack would absolutely mess with Tom while Tom was coming in for the kill in the courtroom,” Pollak, 68, told People on Sunday, June 28.

According to Pollak, Nicholson couldn’t resist causing trouble on set, especially during Cruise’s most intense moments, such as his iconic courtroom demand for “the truth.”

Pollak revealed that Nicholson stood just off-camera while Cruise, 63, performed the sequence, making funny faces at him as he delivered his lines.

But Cruise, as always, didn’t miss a beat — rather, he finished the take before walking over to Nicholson and giving him a punch to the shoulder, which Pollak said, “Jack loved.”

Directed by Rob Reiner and adapted from Aaron Sorkin’s 1989 play, A Few Good Men follows two military lawyers (played by Cruise and Demi Moore) as they defend two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier.

The film also starred Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland and Noah Wyle.

The comedian also reminisced about a sweet fan moment with Reiner in Washington, D.C., when the director joked to a stranger that they were working on The Godfather instead.

He recalled one of his favorite moments from filming A Few Good Men in Washington, D.C., where the cast and crew spent a couple of weeks shooting exterior scenes.

“One night we were walking back from somewhere, just the two of us, and someone passed us and said, ‘Oh my God, Rob Reiner, how are you? Are you here working?'” Pollak recalled.

When Reiner said he was, the passerby asked what he was working on.

“And he said, ‘The Godfather,‘” Pollak said.

Pollak also recalled that he later asked Reiner why he had jokingly claimed he was working on The Godfather instead of saying A Few Good Men.

“Well, if I said A Few Good Men, it was a Broadway play, but if you didn’t see the Broadway play, you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about,” Reiner told him, according to Pollak. “So if I say The Godfather, we’re done talking, and you and I can keep going with our lives.”

The Usual Suspects star admitted that the trick stuck with him: “I’ve used it ever since”.