Sorkin revealed the key role that Nicole Kidman played in launching his Hollywood career when she came to see his Broadway play A Few Good Men, which he’d mapped out on cocktail napkins while working behind the bar during a production of La Cage aux Folles. “She came to see it, called her then-husband, Tom Cruise, and said ‘you should get over here. There’s a part you’re going to want to play’,” he said. “Tom came to see the play, called Jack Nicholson and said ‘you should get over here’.” Sorkin wrote the screenplay and Rob Reiner directed Cruise, Nicholson and Demi Moore in a movie that became a hit and earned four Oscar nominations, including best picture.